Packaging provides many important benefits to society; it secures product quality, provides for efficient and safe delivery, enables storage and sufficient shelf life, offers important product information and protects products from damage, tampering and deterioration. Packaging provides consumers what they want, when they want it, in a format that fits their lifestyles. While some people do recycle, unfortunately about one-third of an average dump is still made up of packaging material, including metal and plastic that can be recycled and reused! At Ball, we see this as a big waste of energy and resources, not to mention an increasing strain on our planet.

As a packaging producer, Ball works hard to help make sure as many of the cans and bottles we manufacture are recycled as possible. We don’t want these valuable resources to end up in the dump. We recently hosted a recycling video contest on YouTube to give people a chance to create a short video to help us showcase the benefits of recycling and convince people to do more. We received many very creative entries that provided a variety of fun, informative and sometimes downright strange approached to communicating about recycling.

And the Winners Are...

First Place: "Poor Can" by Shang Gao of Duke University

Second Place: "Two Bottles, One Dream" by Matthew Crabtree

Third Place: "Allie Luminum" by Shannon and Burk Mikesell

Thanks to all who created videos for Ball’s contest, and please keep recycling!