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A webinar entitled Packaging: Hero or villain in a circular economy, is scheduled for 23 June. It will feature Dr Helen Lewis, a fellow of the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), and Barbara Nebel, CEO of thinkstep-anz.

Lewis and Nebel will discuss tools to assess best circular practice for products and materials share circular economy case studies in the 30-minute webinar.

The webinar will examine ideas about how moving to a circular economy does not automatically mean reducing packaging. When used correctly, good packaging design can be a part of the solution. An environmentally sound option for some products, life cycle and circular economy thinking allow for better design and decision-making to make packaging a truly sustainable sector.

Topics expected to be covered include:

  • Tools to assess best circular practice for products and materials: Cradle to Cradle certification, LCA
  • Approaches to avoid shifting burdens from across the life cycle of a product
  • Case studies

Click here to register for the webinar, scheduled for 1pm – 1:30pm AEST on 23 June.

Food & Drink Business

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Food and beverage manufacturers are facing a warehouse space crisis, and most of them did not see it coming. Production expanded, storage followed and over time, an organised operation became a fragmented footprint of disconnected warehouses, rising third-party costs, and a site nobody would have designed on purpose. Swisslog ANZ director of sales, Steve Dimitrovski, examines why the space problem is structural and how automation is helping manufacturers solve it without building a new site.

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