{"id":13253,"date":"2026-05-13T13:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13253"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:17:14","slug":"10-sustainable-packaging-winners-from-the-2026-if-design-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=13253","title":{"rendered":"10 Sustainable Packaging Winners From the 2026 iF Design Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>From a corrugated shipping box that ditches tape forever to a luxury whisky bottle made with upcycled distiller\u2019s grains, this year\u2019s iF winners prove that sustainability is no longer a constraint \u2014 it\u2019s the brief.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>The <strong>2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdesign.com\/\">iF DESIGN AWARDS<\/a><\/strong> landed with a clear signal: packaging\u2019s sustainability conversation has moved past materials swaps and into structural rethinks. This year, iF\u2019s jurors gave one of their highest honors yet, the first-ever perfect score for Sustainability, to a humble corrugated box, while across the broader winners\u2019 list we saw a wave of projects rewriting the rules around glue, labels, plastics, ink, and end-of-life.<\/p>\n<p><button id=\"expand-paywall-button\" class=\"expand-paywall-button\">Subscribe to Read More<\/button><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/10-sustainable-packaging-winners-at-if-design-awards-2026\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a corrugated shipping box that ditches tape forever to a luxury whisky bottle made with upcycled distiller\u2019s grains, this year\u2019s iF winners prove that sustainability is no longer a constraint \u2014 it\u2019s the brief. The 2026 iF DESIGN AWARDS landed with a clear signal: packaging\u2019s sustainability conversation has moved past materials swaps and into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}