Company news, media + awards

This month our "Plastic pile of sh!t" won a coveted Gold Pin at the Best Awards. The Best Design Awards is an annual showcase of excellence in graphic, spatial, product, digital and motion design. Congrats to our incredible agencies The Special Group and The Glue Society for taking our crazy brief and running with it ... all the way to Bondi Beach.

Until now there have been very few sustainable alternatives to stretch pallet wrap made from new, virgin plastic. While there are reusable wraps in market, and we would highly recommend investigating these, they are often only suitable if the wrap is used within a closed loop system.In 2020, we began producing a certified home compostable pallet wrap before deciding we could do a lot better – we could make pallet wrap from 100% recycled plastic pollution and clean up the environment in Southeast Asia at the same time.

Here’s why POLLAST!C Pallet wrap is so much better!

Because your manufacturing will often take place in Asia, your factory is likely responsible for sourcing the poly bags they packaging your garments into. That's why we've made it super-easy for your manufacturers/suppliers to order Better packaging on your behalf! 

Our co-founder Kate Bezar is quoted in a recent issue of Renew Magazine in one of the best articles we've read recently regarding the extremely complex issues surrounding packaging and its sustainability.

Bondi Beach residents were greeted with a powerful message after a four-metre-high plastic poop representing the amount of waste that enters the world’s oceans every 30 seconds was installed on their iconic beach.  It made headlines worldwide including The Guardian, The Independent, UN Water, Yahoo NEWS Australia, NowThisNews, SBS News, The New Zealand Herald, OneNews, NewstalkZB, ABC Australia, Canberra Times, The Atlantic and many more.

This huge plastic poop represents the amount of plastic that enters the ocean EVERY 30 SECONDS. Scary huh. Most of it enters via land, and most of that from Asia. Better Packaging Co. installed it on Bondi Beach on World Environment Day 2023 to draw attention to the problem but also to show that solutions do exist. By finding ways to recycle this pollution, we create the incentive for it to be collected and kept out of nature. It's that simple, we have to stop treating plastic like SH!T.