Course Overview
Sustainability – Packaging Optimization, Life Cycle Approach, Material Recovery Facility, Circular Economy, Consumer Trends, Setting Up for Success
This workshop-based packaging design course provides the tools and insights to deliver better packaging solutions based on taking a life cycle approach.
Course Details & Pricing
Eastern Standard Time/New York.
Daily.
Price
Learning objectives
- Business case for sustainability
- Life cycle assessment and approach
- Optimized packaging design for waste reduction
- Recycling challenges at a Material Recovery Facility (MRF)
- Applying circular economy concepts
Who should attend?
Anyone working within the packaging value chain from designers, developers and decision makers to raw material suppliers, manufacturers, brand owners and retailers to waste management, re-processors and municipalities.
Course Topics
Packaging Sustainability and Circular Economy Frameworks
- What is Sustainability?
- Sustainable Materials Management
- Circular Economy, Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Upstream Innovation Packaging Guide
Measuring Packaging Sustainability and Circularity
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Packaging Innovation Pathway 360 (PIP 360)
Safety, Quality, Compliance
- Product protection
- Package performance
- Sustainability claims
Packaging Elimination
- Removal of packaging through direct and innovative elimination
- Lightweighting
Packaging and Food Waste Reduction
- Introduction to packaging’s role in overall environment footprint of the product
- Impact of food waste on environment
Reusable Packaging
- Defining types of reusable packaging
- Key factors to achieve economic and environmental viability
Golden Design Rules
- Introduction to the Consumer Goods Forum Golden Design Rules for Plastics Packaging
Extended Producer Responsibility and Recycling Regulations
- EPR in Canada
- Canada single use plastics
- Bans
- Recycled Content Regulations
- Canada Labelling Regulation
- EPR in USA
- California Recycled Content Regulations
Recycled Content
- Meeting regulations
- APR certification
PAC Packaging Circularity Course Lecturers
The PAC Packaging Circularity Course is developed and presented by industry professionals, ensuring you get the most up to date information while advancing your career.
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Dan Lantz, DBA, EP, MCIWM PAC NEXT Director PAC GlobalDan has more than 30 years of experience in end of life materials management. He worked in recycling operations for six years. He worked with Stewardship Ontario in the design of the Blue Box Program Plan and in the design and operation of the current BC-wide EPR-based recycling program. Dan teaches the Packaging Circularity course for PAC Global. Dan was the strategic advisor to the Canadian Plastics Industry Association for 30 years. Dan has written and presented over 100 papers/presentations on waste diversion. Dan has specialist knowledge of EPR and stewardship, package design optimization and recycling program and facility design and operation.
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Andrew Macdonald PAC NEXT Program Manager PAC GlobalAndrew Macdonald manages PAC Global’s packaging sustainability and circularity program – PAC NEXT. As the lead for PAC Global on reusable packaging, Andrew tests models, tracks innovation, reviews research, summarizes findings via the PAC blog, and has a growing network of practitioners active in this space.
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