Sustainability
at BioPak
2024
At BioPak, sustainability is at the heart of everything we do, driving our vision of a world without waste. From day one, we’ve focused on advancing the circular economy and leading the charge in revolutionising the foodservice packaging industry — responding to the growing demand for compostable solutions. Packaging is essential to daily life, ensuring food can be stored, transported and distributed safely, but we also recognise and accept the responsibility to actively minimise the waste it creates. Our commitment to composting plays a pivotal role in our mission, reducing waste and closing the loop by diverting packaging and food waste from landfill and turning it into valuable organic matter that enriches the soil. By championing compostable solutions, we’re not just changing the future of packaging, we’re enabling a more sustainable and circular world for generations to come.
Our Five Pillars Towards a Circular Economy
These five pillars are the foundation of our vision: a world without waste. We’re disrupting the take, make, waste model and leading the way towards a truly circular economy.
Use rapidly renewable, reclaimed, and plant-based raw materials
Maintain a transparent and responsible supply chain
Look beyond carbon offsets through our Emissions Reduction Plan
Take responsibility for product disposal and end-of-life
Protect the environment and give back to the community
Sustainability in 2024: A Snapshot
We're dedicated to reducing our impact on the environment by integrating innovative tools, forward-thinking business strategies, and globally verified sustainability programs. These initiatives align with our mission to create a world without waste, guided by our five key sustainability pillars.
Emissions Reduction Plan
At BioPak, our commitment to combating climate change is steadfast. While we were carbon-neutral certified for over a decade, in 2022, we made a strategic shift away from traditional carbon offsetting. Instead of allocating 1% of profits to offsets, we redirect these funds into our Emissions Reduction Plan, funding research, education, and advocacy to promote composting across our markets.
BioPak Commits to Reaching Net-Zero GHG Emissions Across Our Value Chain by 2050
BioPak is proud to align with the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi)-approved target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. This target reflects our commitment to ambitious emissions reductions in line with the latest climate science.
Environmental Impact Label
BioPak’s Environmental Impact Label sets a new standard for transparency, providing clear data on the environmental footprint of our products to empower smarter choices and drive sustainability. It’s a bold step in reducing our impact and combating climate change.
Compost Connect
To reduce the emissions associated with the end-of-life of our products, a key part of the Emissions Reduction Plan fund is our investment in Compost Connect. Compost Connect is a not-for-profit composting platform committed to growing composting infrastructure and education, lifting composting rates, and connecting foodservice businesses to commercial composters. The platform works by empowering people to compost – both at an individual and business level.
Embracing Reusables for the Circular Economy
At BioPak, we’ve always held a vision of a circular economy, and now we recognise that the best way to embrace circularity in the foodservice industry is by adopting reusables and compostables, hand in hand. In 2024, we welcomed Huskee to the BioPak Group. Original HuskeeCups are reusable, elegant and a passport to the ‘HuskeeSwap’ program – a cup exchange system designed to make reusables as easy as possible. Once they’ve reached end-of-life, Huskee products can be recycled via HuskeeLoop.
Advancing United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a universal framework for tackling global challenges like poverty, inequality, and climate change while promoting peace and prosperity by 2030. At BioPak, we align our operations with the SDGs, focusing on five key goals tied to our business pillars and two supporting goals linked to our charity partnerships. Throughout this report, we highlight the SDG logos in relevant sections to underscore our commitment to driving progress toward a circular economy and advancing these critical global objectives.
Our Five Key UN Sustainable Development Goals
Our Two Supporting UN Sustainable Development Goals
Sustainability Report Highlights
