Corbion, MPM and Open Farm win twice at new pet sustainability awards

Corbion, MPM Products and Open Farm each won two awards at the Pet Sustainability Coalition's first Worldwide Pet Sustainability Awards, which handed out 18 awards to 17 companies at the Starry Night Gala during Impact Unleashed in Boulder, Colorado. Open Farm's second win is co-founder Jacqueline Prehogan's Sustainability Hero of the Year honor.

Only PSC Accredited companies could enter, according to the coalition's awards page. Winners get a badge, a physical trophy and a coordinated media announcement. PSC was founded in 2013 by eight companies and now serves more than 200 member companies.

Winners won on documented, checkable results

The packaging winners were picked on verifiable outcomes. Sonoco won for post-consumer recycled content, with 66% of the materials in its 2025 packaging portfolio coming from post-consumer recycled sources.

Tyler Packaging and Law Print and Packaging tied for recyclability. Tyler's mono-material range is certified under Interzero's "Made for Recycling" standard, while Law Print takes part in its parent company's Go-Recycle program for material recovery.

Nylabone won the waste reduction award for moving from plastic blister packs to FSC-certified paperboard. Packaging Dive reported in January 2025, citing Nylabone's release, that most blister designs had been eliminated and that the revamp would cut annual plastic use by more than 40 tons.

A PSC case study credits packaging supplier TOPPAN with the redesign and says it ran on existing equipment, without major capital investment.

On the ingredient side, PSC said Corbion won for climate action on the strength of net-zero targets validated by the Science Based Targets initiative and a CDP Climate A List rating. Innovafeed won for its black soldier fly Hilucia line.

Our insect pet food coverage named Innovafeed among the seven leading ingredient suppliers in a Future Market Insights report on that category.

Three winners already collected awards in May

PSC held a separate European round at Interzoo in May. Three of the 17 Worldwide winners also took European awards: Corbion, Moderna Products and Tyler Packaging. Corbion won two of them, for climate action and ingredient innovation.

Open Farm's regenerative award rests on a Land to Market verified product. Savory Institute's Land to Market page says the program has verified more than 5 million acres, with 80+ member brands and 1,000+ verified products. We covered Open Farm's PetSmart expansion in June.

For the European round, Jim Lamancusa, PSC's CEO, said in the coalition's May announcement of those winners, "By recognizing and celebrating the work being done, we create momentum."

Prehogan spoke about Open Farm's early days as she and co-founder Isaac Langleben accepted EY's Canadian Entrepreneur Of The Year award in 2025. "We had an idea, we had a mission and we were completely bought into it," she said, EY's announcement records.

Who this touches and what comes next

Packaging suppliers have the clearest read. PSC's descriptions for Sonoco, Morris Packaging, Tyler and Law Print name recycled-content disclosure, source reduction, mono-material design and take-back programs.

Brands competing with Open Farm, Instinct and Petcurean can measure themselves against the same descriptions. Instinct won for building a carbon footprint measurement system and a quantified reduction roadmap, and Petcurean won for an impact report that discussed challenges honestly.

Applications for this round closed on August 31st, 2026.

Source: Pet Sustainability Coalition