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Sustainable Packaging Design
Award-winning sustainable packaging from the GDUSA Design Awards, with the firm and the designers credited on every project.
42 award-winning projects
Sustainable packaging is where a brand's environmental promise becomes a material cost, and the shelf still expects it to look good. The designer has to lose the plastic and keep the shelf presence, which means the structure does work the graphics used to. The winners here look like better packaging first. Disney Consumer Products has won three times replacing plastic blisters in its castle playsets and tree toppers with paper, and ProAmpac's recyclable bag for Black Magic potting soil kept the brand's shelf presence intact. The best sustainable packaging designers in the awards are shown here. Open any package to see the structure and learn what it replaced.
Notable winners
- Huffy GRM (Grow. Ride. Move.) Packagingby Huffy Corporation (United Wheels) · 2026
- Disney Castle Playsets, Plastic Reductionby Disney Consumer Products · 2026
- Disney Tree Topper, Plastic Reductionby Disney Consumer Products · 2026
- Disney Parks Skyliner Gondola, Plastic Reductionby Disney Consumer Products · 2026
- Black Magic Organic Potting Soil Sustainable Packagingby Printed by ProAmpac · 2026
- Eco-Friendly Tetra Paks Designby Sara Nelson Design, Ltd. for Cascadian Outfitters · 2025
2026
Disney Tree Topper, Plastic Reduction
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Disney Consumer Products
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2026
Huffy GRM (Grow. Ride. Move.) Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Huffy Corporation (United Wheels)
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2026
Disney Parks Skyliner Gondola, Plastic Reduction
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Disney Consumer Products
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2026
Disney Castle Playsets, Plastic Reduction
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Disney Consumer Products
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2026
Black Magic Organic Potting Soil Sustainable Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Printed by ProAmpac
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2025
Pompeian Sustainably Grown Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
HUNTER
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2025
Solely Package Redesign
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Fortnight Collective
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2025
Eco-Friendly Tetra Paks Design
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Sara Nelson Design, Ltd.
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2025
Grab & Go: Wine Boxes
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Sara Nelson Design, Ltd.
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2025
Sustainable Stands For Food Tech
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Smurfit Westrock
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2024
Dell Laptop Multipack Initiative
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Dell Technologies, Experience Innovation Group
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2024
Recycled-Ready Packaging for Eco-Friendly Subscription Dog Food
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
ReelPaws
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2024
Sustainable & Adjustable Corner Protector
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Smurfit Kappa North America
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2024
Splice Packaging Concept
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Abigail Smith
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2023
SPECTRO: From Forest To Forest: A Paperboard Story
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
10 Thousand Design
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2023
Arrowhead Spring Water 100% Recycled Bottle
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Cornerstone Strategic Branding
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2023
Art in Piece Defends the Work of Artists and The Environment
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Smurfit Kappa Brazil
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2023
MCD 50th Anniversary Unfolding Box
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
MCD, Inc.
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2023
Dell Sustainable Modernized Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Dell Technologies, Experience Innovation Group
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2023
Sustainable Coffee Packaging System
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
NuevoStudio
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2021
Alter Eco Foods Packaging Refresh
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Modern Species
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2021
Raw Board Double-Sided Slipcase CI RIGIDBOX
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Corporate Image
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2021
Future of Sustainable Luxury Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
International Direct Packaging
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2021
Tank-less Sustainable Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Smurfit Kappa North America
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2021
Give Again Holiday Kit
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
VSA Partners
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2021
Mox Bank Metal Card Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Mox Bank Limited
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2021
Little Lady Studio Gift Cards
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Little Lady Studio
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2020
Dell Pollution Ink Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Dell Technologies, Experience Innovation Group
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2020
Dell Latitude 25th Anniversary Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Dell Technologies, Experience Innovation Group
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2020
FEKKAI Professional Hair Care Line Package Design
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
FEKKAI Product Design Team
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2019
Promega Packaging Refresh
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Promega Corporation
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2019
Hand Dish Liquid Redesign
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Seventh Generation
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2019
Multi-Purpose Wipes
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Seventh Generation
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2017
Seajoy Sustainable Shrimp Retail Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Iconicity Works LLC
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2017
Bags On A Mission!
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Commit to Green Inc.
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2017
Naturell Branding and Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
The Goldstein Group
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2017
Brummel & Brown Organic Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
TFI Envision, Inc.
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2017
Brummel & Brown Organic Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
TFI Envision, Inc.
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2017
Maty’s Healthy Products Packaging
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Haberman
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2015
Garden GiftBox
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Nicholas N. Napier
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2015
Blend Shadow Box
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
Prestone Press
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2015
Colorhouse Inspired Paint Can Labels
Sustainable Packaging
Firm
YaM Brand
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Vendors for this discipline
Common questions
- How many sustainable packaging projects have won GDUSA awards?
- The gallery holds 42, from 2015 to 2026. Each one is listed here with its firm and designer credits.
- Which firms have won the most GDUSA awards for sustainable packaging?
- Dell Technologies, Experience Innovation Group leads with 4 winning projects, ahead of Disney Consumer Products (3), Sara Nelson Design, Ltd. (2), Smurfit Kappa North America (2), Seventh Generation (2), TFI Envision, Inc. (2). The full ranking, with each firm's latest winner, is on its own page. Best Sustainable Packaging firms, by award wins.
- Which clients are named on award-winning sustainable packaging projects?
- Clients named on this work include Sappi North America, Unilever, Aloha, Art in Piece, Big Canyon. The firm that entered the work named the client, so the credit is theirs. Work an in-house team made for its own company does not count as client work.
- How do I enter sustainable packaging work in the GDUSA awards?
- Entries go through the GDUSA entry platform. Past winners in this category came through the American Package Design Awards and the Health & Wellness Design Awards. A single entry costs $120 as of October 2026, and packages bring the price per piece down to $400 for ten to twenty entries. Winners who publish get a project page here with full credits, and publication is the paid step. How the awards work.