SAPRO Awards for the Best Recycled Plastic Products 2024.
On the night of 19 September 2024, the South African Plastics Recycling Organisation (SAPRO) held its annual gala dinner for the SAPRO Awards for the Best Recycled Plastic Products at The Avenue, in the beautiful Cape Town Aquarium. A night of delights was enjoyed by 190 guests from across the recycling value chain, comprising plastic recyclers, converters, brand owners, producer responsibility organisations (PRO’s), research institutions and technology providers.
Guests arrived to canapes and fine sparkling wine sponsored by Spier Wines, while they perused the display of entries for the SAPRO Awards and a demonstration of a Plasticpreneur small scale extruder from Erema.
The SAPRO Awards were made possible by an esteemed group of sponsors. Platinum sponsorship came from Polyco a long-term partner of the SAPRO Awards and South Africa’s largest PRO, representing almost 700 companies’ EPR obligations and financial partner to roughly 70 recycling and 40 recyclables collection companies. Our second platinum sponsor and long-term partner of 7 years was Erema Africa. Erema supplies top of the range recycling technology to large industrial and small-scale recyclers alike with cutting edge technology, like Vacunite for PET bottle-to-bottle and Refresher for HDPE bottle-to-bottle recycling. The Plasticpreneur range for small scale recycling is great for education and awareness raising too.
SAPRO was thrilled to be joined by a new silver sponsor, Coperion GmbH, a global recycling technology company offering end-to-end solutions with some specialities being compounding and extrusion systems, including conveying, mixing and feeding. Our other long-term partners are, Plastics|SA, Packaging SA and Petco.
Winners and categories for 2024 are as follows:
- Best Packaging Innovation: XYZ Packaging for their eco-friendly bottle design.
- Sustainability Award: ABC Corp for their recyclable packaging solutions.
- Consumer Choice Award: DEF Ltd for their user-friendly packaging.
