Sustainable packaging solutions - Bright Green Partners

OUR SECTOR

Making packaging more sustainable

We advise you on implementing sustainable packaging solutions, including biodegradable, compostable, and recyclable materials, alongside circular practices. Our approach helps lower environmental impact, reduce landfill contributions, and conserve natural resources.

The opportunity

Turning sustainable packaging into business value

Sustainable packaging can reduce environmental impact, create new value streams, and support your sustainability goals. We help you improve material efficiency, optimize packaging design, and identify practical opportunities to integrate sustainable solutions across your supply chain.

Our approach balances environmental performance with cost-effectiveness, ensuring that sustainable packaging strategies are both commercially viable and aligned with your business objectives and regulatory requirements.

Sustainable packaging solutions - Bright Green Partners

Perspective

Eco-friendly

Sustainable packaging transforms packaging waste into a valuable asset, utilizing eco-friendly materials that can be recycled, composted, or repurposed to reduce environmental impact and support circularity.

Challenge

Supply chain

Establishing sustainable packaging solutions requires substantial investment in innovative materials, technology, and supply chain adjustments, as well as ensuring compliance with evolving regulatory standards for sustainability. Further, rapid technological advances can render long-term investments obsolete within a few years, as newer, more efficient solutions emerge.

Opportunity

Brand image

By implementing sustainable packaging practices, companies can lower waste disposal costs, enhance brand reputation, and demonstrate leadership in environmental responsibility within a circular economy.

Where our sustainable packaging work focuses

We help you develop and evaluate sustainable packaging solutions that reduce environmental impact, replace conventional materials, and create value from renewable and recovered resources. By considering materials, functionality, end-of-life, and the wider supply chain, we support packaging strategies that improve circularity and deliver long-term environmental and commercial value.

Biodegradable & compostable packaging materials

Choosing the right sustainable packaging material requires balancing environmental performance with functionality, safety, and end-of-life requirements. We assess innovative biodegradable and compostable materials to identify solutions suited to your products and applications:

  • Plant-based polymers and bio-based packaging
  • Starch-based packaging materials
  • Cellulose-based films and packaging
  • Biodegradable plastics such as PLA and PHA
  • Compostable packaging solutions
  • Compostability standards and certifications
  • Material decomposition and end-of-life assessment
  • Impact of packaging materials on soil and ecosystems

Edible & food-grade sustainable packaging

Edible packaging offers opportunities to reduce conventional packaging waste while creating innovative applications for food and beverage products. We evaluate material performance, food safety, shelf life, and functionality to identify commercially viable applications:

  • Seaweed-based edible packaging
  • Starch-based edible films and wraps
  • Fruit and vegetable peel-based films
  • Edible packaging for food and beverage applications
  • Shelf life and stability assessment
  • Moisture, barrier, and mechanical performance
  • Food safety and regulatory compliance
  • Edible packaging product development

Waste-based packaging & circular material sourcing

Waste streams and industrial byproducts can become valuable feedstocks for new packaging materials. We help identify opportunities to upcycle food waste, agricultural residues, and other secondary resources into sustainable packaging while supporting circular supply chains and reducing reliance on virgin materials:

  • Agricultural byproduct utilization for packaging
  • Food waste upcycling into packaging materials
  • Mushroom-based and mycelium packaging
  • Recycled paper and cardboard solutions
  • Biomass-derived packaging fibers
  • Industrial waste repurposing
  • Waste-to-packaging material development
  • Sustainable material sourcing and circular supply chains

Ready to make your packaging more sustainable?

Book a short call with our team to identify the fastest opportunities for reducing material impact, improving efficiency, and adopting sustainable packaging solutions.

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What our clients say

“The BGP team helped us assess the alt protein market and better understand the most promising technologies and ingredients. Beyond providing insights and strategy advisory, they also helped us to strengthen our network in this space.”

Steve Chantry
Vice President of International Growth
Kraft Heinz Company

“Bright Green Partners provided high quality support during our due diligence process. Their deep sector knowledge, rigorous assessment, and clear recommendations helped us navigate key opportunities and risks, ultimately contributing to a well-informed investment decision. We greatly appreciated their professionalism and collaborative approach throughout the engagement.”

Hanna Zwietering
Sr. Investment Manager
ABN AMRO Sustainable Impact Fund

“Working with Bright Green Partners was an exceptional experience! Their thoughtful, thorough research and deep understanding of agricultural industries and byproduct opportunities brought tremendous value. Not only did they deliver a wealth of insights, but an actionable roadmap with viable pathways that can meaningfully impact our industry. Their team was collaborative, insightful and incredibly responsive throughout the process. We look forward to continuing our work together and highly recommend them to organizations seeking a strong research and consulting partner.”

Serena Schaffner
Chief Marketing Officer
American Pecan Promotion Board

“We greatly appreciated BGP’s high responsiveness, flexibility, and analytical approach to our research topics. Their expertise helped us gain a much clearer understanding of market dynamics and our target groups – creating a strong foundation for our future project work. We look forward to collaborating again on upcoming opportunities.”

Ulrike Hardner
Project Manager Sustainable Land Use
WWF Germany

“BGP brought in uniquely deep insights through their professionally strong and reliable networks and a robust consulting framework, which is what we were looking for. Their work has helped us make better strategic and commercial decisions. We look forward to continuing our partnership.”

Yasushi Noguchi
Senior Director
Ajinomoto Health & Nutrition North America

“BGP helped us gain the right insights, provided helpful recommendations, and executed everything swiftly. This has helped us identify key risks, allowing for timely anticipation and mitigation.”

Pieter Meuwissen
Venture Developer
Brabantse Ontwikkelings Maatschappij (BOM)

“We asked BGP to prepare a technical due diligence assessment for a potential investment in the cultured meat space. We were very much impressed by the quality of the BGP team, the thorough way of working, the valuable and up-to-date insights they provided and the open way of communication. 

The assessment has helped us in better understanding the challenges of the company in this quickly evolving industry and in structuring a transaction. In many ways BGP outperformed our expectations and we are looking forward to working with them again.”

Victor Meijer
Sr. Investment Manager
InvestNL

“BGP supported us by analysing the commercial and technical aspects of a potential investment in the circular fertilizer industry. Their thorough analysis helped us better understand both the challenges and opportunities of the company and the broader market. We were very satisfied with the team’s commitment and flexibility. In addition, the structured frameworks and clear presentation helped us enormously in quickly understanding and assessing the investment opportunity.”

Patrick Barendse
Investment Associate
Horticoop

“Utilizing their deep industry experience and extensive technical network, the BGP team navigated our project toward the most valuable solutions, making the most of past insights and existing data. The team stands apart in its approach to driving progress with consistent advancements that offer clarity at every project stage.”

Amanda Bess
Science & Technology Analysis Manager
The Good Food Institute

“BGP was amongst the first ones we called when we embarked on our alt protein journey. The team did an excellent job organising an engaging workshop series for our key decision makers. They provided a detailed perspective on the industry and helped us identify relevant internal capabilities and resources to leverage.”

Andrey Dribny
CEO of Culinary
IFFCO Group

“BGP provides us essential support to help drive our vision towards practical implementation. The depth of industry insights they bring in, combined with their consistently top-quality work, enables us to confidently navigate this fast-changing field.”

George Harrigan
Director of Food and Functional Ingredients
NEOM

“BGP has been a valuable resource in leveraging industry knowledge, market sizing, and cultivated relationships to help our team further evaluate the Alternative Proteins landscape. 

We appreciate their ability to envision and look beyond the current state of the industry, peering into the future state where we can all contribute to feeding 10 billion people differently.”

Mike Snodgrass
Managing Director Global Alternative Proteins
Griffith Foods

“We worked together with the BGP team to develop our fermentation strategy and to make some very clear choices on where to play and how to win. The insights and support from the BGP team throughout this project were outstanding and they also brought in several experts to do a couple of technical deep-dives. Moreover they ensured that our teams were involved and on board with the proposed strategy. Together with BGP we developed a clear path forward in terms of our fermentation strategy and we are now fully in execution mode.”

Thijs Bosch
Managing Director
Cosun Protein
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Frequently asked questions

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Is edible packaging a realistic option for food and beverage products?
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It can be, for the right applications. We evaluate material performance, food safety, shelf life, and functionality for options like seaweed-based films and fruit peel-based films to identify where edible packaging is commercially viable rather than just a novelty.

Who should work with BGP on sustainable packaging strategy?
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Food and beverage brands looking to reduce packaging waste and environmental impact while maintaining product performance and cost-effectiveness, especially those evaluating multiple material options and needing help choosing the right one for their specific product and supply chain.

What are sustainable packaging solutions?
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Sustainable packaging solutions include biodegradable, compostable, and recyclable materials, along with edible packaging and packaging made from recovered waste streams. Bright Green Partners helps you evaluate which sustainable materials balance environmental performance with functionality, safety, and cost.

What areas does BGP cover in sustainable packaging?
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We advise across biodegradable and compostable packaging materials (plant-based polymers, starch-based films, PLA and PHA plastics), edible and food-grade packaging (seaweed-based films, fruit and vegetable peel-based films), and waste-based packaging and circular material sourcing (mushroom and mycelium packaging, recycled paper and cardboard).

What makes choosing a sustainable packaging material difficult?
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Every material choice requires balancing environmental performance with functionality, food safety, and end-of-life requirements like compostability standards and certifications. We help you assess which materials actually meet your product’s shelf life and barrier needs, not just its sustainability goals.

How do I book a call with Bright Green Partners?
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You can schedule directly through BGP’s online booking calendar without going through a sales form first. Pick a time and you’ll speak with the team about your project from the first call. Book it directly here.

What services does Bright Green Partners offer?
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BGP offers 2 core services: Strategy consulting and Due Diligence (commercial and technical) for investors and acquirers, and Customized Insights for tailored market research. Each is built specifically for AgriFood Tech, not adapted from a generic consulting framework.

What’s the difference between Bright Green Partners and FoodTech Experts?
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Bright Green Partners (BGP) delivers strategy, due diligence, and insights work directly to clients. FoodTech Experts (FTE) is BGP’s expert network and knowledge platform – it connects clients with individual specialists for calls, freelance projects, surveys, panels, and speaking engagements. Same team, different service model.

What does Bright Green Partners do?
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Bright Green Partners is a boutique strategy consultancy focused on AgriFood Tech, specifically topics like alternative protein, precision, biomass, and traditional fermentation, side streams, food waste management, health & wellness, nutraceuticals, and many more. We help companies, investors, and organizations with market strategy, commercial and technical due diligence, and industry insights in these fast-moving sectors, having delivered 55+ projects across the space.

What sectors does Bright Green Partners specialize in?
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We focus on four core areas within AgriFood Tech: Alternative Products, Agriculture, Side Stream Management, and Health & Wellness. That narrow focus means market data, expert access, and technical understanding a generalist consultancy can’t match.

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