Sustainability awards

Landscape of knowledge: bad boy, black mass

Landscape organizer Horst Peter Groß from the Carinthian Science Association, KWF CEO Roland Waldner, winner Elisabeth Goerner and Governor Peter Kaiser at Lake Weissensee.(Bild: Kerstin Wassermann)

Two innovative Carinthian companies were honored with sustainability awards at Lake Weissensee.

Of the five companies nominated for the KWF and Kärntner Sparkasse sustainability awards - we presented the candidates - two were able to impress not only the jury but also the participants at the Landscape of Knowledge at Lake Weissensee: packaging specialist Goerner from Klagenfurt is working on replacing plastic entirely with fiber casting made from recycled paper. CEO Elisabeth Goerner: "The packaging industry is often the bad guy, but we think sustainably and in terms of generations."

The second trophy went to young students who want to solve the battery waste problem with Protect LiB in Bad St. Leonhard. "We can treat the lithium-ion batteries so that they are no longer dangerous and all materials such as the black mass can be recycled."