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BioPak launches sustainability initiative to make English football greener with Birmingham County FA

24 April 2023
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Worcester-based packaging specialists BioPak has teamed up with Birmingham County FA’s award-winning Save Today, Play Tomorrow programme in launching a new sustainability initiative to bring more sustainable food and drink packaging to football clubs across the West Midlands.

The initiative will offer football clubs in the region the exclusive chance to gain a 10 per cent discount on switching their cups, burger boxes and other packaging to BioPak’s environmentally friendlier range.

Clubs of all sizes are being encouraged to take part in the initiative, from grassroots to the professional level.

Richard Lindsay, Sustainability and Insights Manager at the Birmingham County FA, said: “We know that football has a global reach and fanbase, so it’s important for us at a regional level to lead responsibly on how to enjoy the beautiful game in a way that isn’t so costly for the planet.

"By collaborating with BioPak, we are helping football clubs by offering them a more sustainable alternative to how they package consumable items that will lessen their environmental footprint and become a more affordable way for them to introduce products which are friendlier to our planet.”

Leanne Osborne, Managing Director of BioPak UK, added: “We’re proud to be working together with the Birmingham County FA to make our nation’s favourite sport greener, and offer more affordable prices on packaging that is much friendlier for the planet than plastic alternatives.

"We’ve provided a wide range of packaging to high profile clubs in the past and we look forward to rolling this initiative out more widely.”


Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.

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