The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) has announced that a visiting academic from Sweden will be one of the speakers at the up-coming AIP Technical Dinner on March 6, to be held at the Box Hill Golf Club, Victoria.
The speakers for the evening will be Helén Williams, senior lecturer in energy and environmental systems at Karlstad University, Sweden and visiting academic at RMIT, Robin Tuckerman FAIP, RT Consulting and Warwick Hall, vice president, Australasian Bioplastics Association.
Helén Williams is the senior lecturer in energy and environmental systems at Karlstad University, Sweden and visiting academic at RMIT, Melbourne
She will discus how In order to develop better packaging from a sustainability perspective it is important to increase understanding about service dimensions of packaging, what packaging does. The prerequisites for service that packaging function provide for influence environmental and social outcome both in supply chain and households. It is often environmentally sound to invest in better packaging if amount of food waste is reduced; however these tradeoffs need to be calculated upon. In general packaging prevents food waste but the design can sometimes be a cause of food waste in the consumer user phase.
Robin Tuckerman FAIP, consultant at RT Consulting will discuss the following:
A key reporting obligation for signatories to the Australian Packaging Covenant is to implement the Sustainable Packaging Guidelines, a reporting requirement that assists In the design, manufacture and end-of-life management of packaging. As well as a requirement to answer a series of up to 70 questions on each packaging type supplied to the market a signatory must also address the issues of Design, Recycling, and Product Stewardship in relationship to its products over the life of the Covenant. Robin will explore the relationship between the requirements of the Australian Packaging Covenant and the ready availability of materials with appropriate environmental credentials.
Warwick Hall, vice president of the Australasian Bioplastics Association will talk on the following: The end of life opportunities for compostable bioplastics. Update on the Australasian Bioplastics Association verification schemes to the requirements of AS4736 - 2006 and As5810 - 2010.
To book your seat at the AIP March Technical Dinner, simply log on to www.aipack.com.au and visit the events section or email
