A two-hour seminar on Fighting Food Waste, Save Food Packaging and Sustainable Packaging Design will be held this month at FoodTech PackTech in Auckland.
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), in conjunction with the Packaging New Zealand, will be running the seminar, which takes place on Thursday 20 from 10.00 am to noon inside FoodTech PackTech in the Seminar room.
SEMINAR – PART ONE will focus on fighting food waste and the role of packaging in minimising food waste, and on a new industry collaboration, the Fight Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre, which in April received a $30 million grant from the Australian Government’s CRC Program.
Find out how packaging companies, food manufacturers and retailers can make a difference as team members of the product-packaging design process to this issue, and learn more about award-winning Save Food Packaging design innovations that have come from Australia and New Zealand and understand how designing packaging to save food actually saves food.
Speakers include Deborah Manning, Chief Executive Officer, KiwiHarvest, Dr Karli Verghese PhD, FAIP, Reducing Supply Chain Losses Research Program Leader, Fight Food Waste CRC and Principal Research Fellow, Industrial Design program School of Design RMIT University, Melbourne, and Lars Ljung, Special Projects Coordinator, Planet Protector Packaging.
SEMINAR – PART TWO will look at moving toward sustainable packaging by 2025. The discussion will help attendees better understand the current conversations in the industry, changes to regulations, how it all relates to you and what tools are available to move towards sustainable packaging.
Hear about the Australasian Recycling Label, the PREP tool and from award-winning packaging experts on how to incorporate Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle and the Circular Economy approach into all of your future packaging design.
Speakers include: Sharon Humphreys, Executive Director, Packaging New Zealand, Alejandra Laclette, Recycling Label Program Manager, Planet Ark Environmental Foundation, Simon Musgrave, Manager, Health Brands Trust.
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) will also be offering a half-day training course as an additional event at FoodTech PackTech 2018 on The Role of Packaging in Minimising Food Waste with all of industry invited to attend. Spots are limited for the training course, so book your place here.
The AIP can be found on stand #2004 at FoodTech PackTech 2018.
