We are proud to announce that our Milk in Glass bottle design has won an award at the World Packaging Organisation 2022 Awards. The gong, picked up in the ‘Beverage’ category was shared with our partners Rhima and is our first at these awards.

Worldstar's esteemed international judges represent 36 World Packaging Organisation members and deliberated on hundreds of submissions from countries around the world. Including Nerida Kelton, Executive Director for the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), Vice President Sustainability & Save Food and the ANZ Board member for the World Packaging Organisation (WPO). We’re thrilled our products have been awarded by someone passionate about educating the industry on the important role that packaging plays in minimising Food Waste and how designing Save Food Packaging can make a difference.

“Schulz Organic Dairy moved to a reuse and refill model. All bottles are returned to their facility to be cleaned and sanitised before each Reuse. The program includes a customer incentive to encourage reuse and refill. The shift to a circular Reuse program has seen a 8,500kg elimination of single-use plastic per year.” (Worldstar Global Packaging Awards Website)

We wanted to extend a heartfelt thank you to everyone who has purchased our glass milk and returned their bottles! Each Schulz Milk in Glass bottle sold saves around 40g of plastic, or 120kg of plastic each week ( based on 3,000 bottles sold). On average, each bottle of delicious, fresh, full-cream milk that has left the dairy has been returned, replenished, and sent back to stores seven times.

With the assistance of Rhima washers and our customers, we've been able to streamline the process of washing, sanitising, and sterilising bottles, allowing us to get milk back into the community even faster, including supplying new stores and increasing stock in some existing retailers.

Congratulations to all of this year's winners from across the world. We are honoured to be in such acclaimed company.