Last night, Notpla was recognised with two Footprint Awards, celebrating both our latest packaging innovation and the natural material that inspires everything we do.

The Footprint Awards bring together the people, partnerships and organisations helping drive sustainability across foodservice, hospitality and the wider supply chain.

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On the night, Notpla was awarded:

Innovation in Packaging Award for our SeaView range

Sustainable Use of Natural Resources Award for our work with seaweed as a material

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The two awards recognise different parts of the same journey.

SeaView was developed to challenge one of the most common assumptions in food-to-go packaging: that visibility requires plastic. Combining the world's first seaweed-film window with a seaweed-based coating, the range gives consumers full product visibility without plastic windows or plastic-lined barriers.

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The Sustainable Use of Natural Resources Award recognises the material behind that innovation.

For more than a decade, seaweed has inspired how we think about packaging. Abundant, fast-growing and requiring no freshwater, fertiliser or farmland, it continues to help us imagine new ways to replace single-use plastic with materials designed to work more closely with nature.

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These awards belong to the scientists, designers, engineers, operators, manufacturers, customers and partners helping turn ideas into real-world solutions every day.

A huge thank you to the Footprint Awards team and judging panel, and congratulations to all the winners and finalists recognised throughout the evening.

Here's to more innovation, more collaboration and a future built from better materials.