Bookings are now open for the Australian Institute of Packaging's new Certified Compostable Packaging Training Course, to be held on 10 November 2021.
The course offers insights in exploring the decision-making process of Certified Compostable Packaging, which provides a potential solution to meet aspects of the 2025 National Packaging Targets.
According to the AIP, it is vital that compostable packaging is considered together with the other desirable outcomes – reusability and recyclability – as an overall aim to achieve greater circularity for packaging. Selecting the wrong pack, or not considering all aspects, can cause major issues downstream at the package recovery phase.
The course will begin by looking at whether a compostable packaging is the right format for a product and if so, assists in the appropriate selection.
Attendees will then gain an understanding of the necessary consumer actions and infrastructure that is essential to ensure that compostable packaging can be recovered once discarded, so that it has a positive environmental impact in its various end uses.
Course objectives include:
• investigating the steps necessary to reduce packaging the re-use options available;
• examining whether recycling provides circularity;
• clarifying how to define compostable packaging and highlighting the importance of the ABA verification program for certifications - AS4736 and AS5810;
• confirming why terms like degradable and biodegradable, without reference to certifications, are meaningless and must be avoided;
• highlighting that all components of a compostable package need to be compostable – for example, inks and/or coatings;
• providing the background on why oxy-degradable/fragmentable plastics will be phased out;
• outlining the importance of ABA logos on-pack to guide consumer awareness of the correct disposal method;
• providing awareness of why not all bioplastics – for example, plastics from renewable resources – are compostable;
• exploring the end result of certified compostable packaging and the processes used in Commercial Composting, whether it arrives via a kerbside Food Organics/Garden Organics (FOGO) bin, or from food service;
• providing a snapshot of some of the certified compostable packaging available today and ways that it could shape the future.
Book your place now by clicking here.
