Sustainable packaging brand BioPak has released its Impact Certificate for 2024, revealing data from the B Corp’s profit-for-purpose Give Back Fund, which aims to preserve and protect the environment and give back to communities both in Australia and across the globe.
Since 2012, BioPak has donated 5 per cent of profits and invested $5,298,081 into environmental and social charities.
Highlights from BioPak’s 2024 Impact Certificate include:
- Planting and rescuing 51,129 trees with Rainforest Rescue, Greenfleet, and Ecologi.
- Providing 300,032 meals through OzHarvest and KiwiHarvest.
- Positively impacting 216,490 lives with MedEarth.
- Avoiding 24,455,772 kilograms of conventional plastic.
BioPak CEO Gary Smith says purpose-led values are significant in business for driving positive change.
“At BioPak, we believe we have an obligation to preserve and protect the environment and give back to the communities we live in. It’s all part of being a certified B Corp and a socially and environmentally responsible business,” he says.
“Our Give Back Fund allows us to continue to live by BioPak’s core values: People, Planet, and Profit – where we’re committed to the highest degree of social and environmental performance and public transparency. In other words, we’re a for-profit organisation using business as a force for good for a better tomorrow. We hope that this purpose-led approach can motivate and encourage other companies in our industry, and beyond, to follow a similar model.”
BioPak is also running a Give Back Sale – for every carton of Black FSC Certified Straws sold in Australia or New Zealand, AU$12.50 will be donated to Rainforest Rescue, up to a maximum total amount of $20,000.
For more information, please visit: biopak.com/about/give-back-fund
