Bioplastics symbol contest attracts 2.8 million votes

Linda Casey

January 29, 2014

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Cereplast Inc., a manufacturer of proprietary bio-based, compostable and sustainable plastics, announced that the Make Your Mark design competition received 2.8 million votes between January 3, 2011, and March 4, 2011, the respective open and close dates for public voting on the contest website. The goal of the Make Your Mark contest is to introduce a new symbol that will help consumers to identify products and packaging made from bioplastics. 


"With 2.8 million votes from the public, the interest and interaction surrounding the contest has exceeded our expectations," remarks Frederic Scheer, Cereplast chairman and CEO. "The bioplastics symbol will enable consumers to easily identify products made from bioplastics, similar to the globally recognized recycling symbol we see on thousands of plastic products." 


The contest received more than 1,500 design submissions and the top 200 semi-finalists were determined based on a public voting system. The top 200 candidates can be viewed at www.iizuu.com/cereplast. The panel of judges, which include notable names including Karim Rashid, Gary Anderson (creator of the recycling symbol) and Rebecca Minkoff, is currently conducting a multi-tiered process of selecting the top three designs. 


Another Make Your Mark judge, John Newland, vp of A+D at Herman Miller comments, "As companies and consumers move toward "greening" their products and business practices, it is important to educate the public in the ways they can identify what the products they purchase are made from."


The winning symbol will be announced on Earth Day Eve, April 21, 2011, at a gala event to be held at the Herman Miller Showroom in Los Angeles, CA. Located at 3641 Holdrege Avenue, Herman Miller's 18,000 square-foot showroom is the first LEED CI (Commercial Interiors) Platinum building in Los Angeles, as certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. The designer of the winning bioplastics symbol will receive $25,000.

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