Members of the food, beverage, packaging and manufacturing industries are now invited to submit abstracts under the theme Climate of Change: Towards a Sustainable Packaging Industry, for the 2008 Australian Institute of Packaging National Conference that will be held from June 12th to 13th, 2008, at Luna Park, Sydney.
The 2008 AIP National Conference will advance discussions on sustainable packaging and looking at continuous improvement in the environmental performance of products through the entire lifecycle from raw materials to landfill.
Areas of specific interest to highlight the integral link that sustainable packaging plays in the delivery of products to consumers will include:
• Defining sustainable packaging.
• Lifecycle analysis.
• The application of sustainability principles.
• Barriers for sustainable packaging development.
• Development of recovery systems for packaging.
• Economic, social and environmental impacts of packaging: the triple bottom line.
• Case studies of packaging that embodies sustainability principles.
• Practical strategies for implementation.
• Carbon trading in 2011.
Case studies and real application examples are strongly encouraged within presentations.
• Defining sustainable packaging.
• Packaging and greenhouse gases: the facts.
• Lifecycle analysis for sustainability.
• A sustainable packaging scorecard: the WalMart experience.
• Balancing sustainability and cost.
• Barriers to sustainable packaging development.
• Development of sustainable recovery systems for packaging.
• Economic, social and environmental aspects of packaging: the triple bottom line.
• Case studies in sustainable packaging
• Bio-based packaging and sustainability.
• Sustainable paper-based packaging.
• Sustainable glass and metal packaging.
• Synthetic polymers: how can they be more sustainable?
• Returnables in their many forms, ie RPC’S, dollies, crates.
• Roll cages as a responsible response to climate change.
• Reduce, Reuse, Redesign, Recycle principles.
• Design and marketing VS environmental impacts.
• Flexible packaging and laminates.
• The changing technologies behind non-toxic products.
• Sustainability and the National Packaging Covenant (NPC).
• Micro environments of sustainable packaging: design, marketing, distribution and legislation. Innovations in design to reduce materials.
• Examples of significant improvements in eco-efficiency: doing more with less.
• Assessing the sustainability of your packaging.
• Sustainable recovery systems.
• Sustainable supply chains and logistics.
• Sustainable design for successful marketing.
• Sustainable packaging development.
• Developments in sustainable materials.
Deadline for abstracts: Monday September 24th, 2007.
Please email nerida@aipack.com.au for a copy of the 'call for papers', or visit www.aipack.com.au
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