Workshop objectives: 

• · Define key sustainability metrics for the packaging and containerboard industry
• · Understand how to measure and track these metrics
• · Identify opportunities to improve the sustainability of packaging and containerboard products

14:00

Welcome and introductions

• · The growing importance of sustainability in the packaging industry
• · Sustainable packaging goals and progress among the top five packaged goods companies
• · Measuring progress toward sustainability goals

Understanding carbon footprints

• · Measuring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions across the supply chain
• · General strategies for corporate carbon footprint reduction: energy efficiency, recycling, reducing waste, renewable energy, optimizing logistics and transportation, carbon offsets, carbon pricing, sustainable supply chains
• · Life cycle assessment (LCA), measuring the environmental impact of packaging

Trends in packaging

• · Primary and secondary (shipping) packaging, and dunnage
• · LCA-influencing metrics like grammage (paper weight) and package-to-product ratio
• · Design for recycling
• · “Reduce”: Strategies for material optimization, including lightweighting and rightsizing
• · Implications of ecommerce for shipping packaging
• · EPR

Managing end-of-life – recyclability, reuse, composting

• · Landfill diversion – what started the recycling movement
• · Understanding pre-consumer and post-consumer recycled materials and end-of-life
• · Recycling symbols/standards – what do consumers know?
• · Paper replacing plastic – how big an impact will it have?
• · The potential of biodegradability and compostability for packaging

15:00 – Case studies of companies successfully implementing sustainable packaging solutions

15:30 – Workshop exercise: Opportunities to improve packaging sustainability at your organization

16:00 – Summary of key takeaways

16:15 – Wrap up

Add the pre-day workshop to your conference pass when registering – for $400 pp (early bird rate). Register in advance as places are limited.