Over the years InnovationSpace has partnered with different companies on projects ranging from Procter & Gamble, to product concepts for healthy aging in women over 65 as well as health and beauty care products for people who are blind, to product concepts for therapeutic toys that help children master the physical, cognitive and emotional challenges of autism with majorToy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This year InnovationSpace is working with The Sustainability Consortium in partnership with representatives from Burt\u2019s Bees, Clorox, Colgate-Palmolive, Mars, P&G, and others to conduct a project that will help companies meet the goals they\u2019ve laid out for recyclability and to meet the mission of making products sustainable. The student teams are looking at the recyclability and circularity goals of small format packaging, defined by the Association for Plastics Recycling as items smaller than 3\u201d in all dimensions. The purpose of this collaborative project is to establish an improved understanding by companies and other stakeholders of the barriers to recycling small format packaging so that they can make decisions related to meeting their sustainability goals, improving product design, conducting consumer education, advocating for policy, and building partnerships that facilitate end markets for plastics. InnovationSpace brings together experts from the industry who provide firsthand, actionable information on a recycling challenge that is unsolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n