The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) has announced two special events which shed light on recycling and the circular economy.
The first will be held at Replas Recycling Environmental Centre in Carrum Downs, Victoria on Tuesday 13 February.
AIP members will have the opportunity to walk through the REC (Recycling Environmental Centre) and glean from new information on plastic waste, where it’s going, and what they can do to help.
Walking through ‘The Tunnel’ and 'The Bag Cave’ will reveal the circular economy needed to create recycled products.
The Replas Environmental Centre (REC) has a wide variety of products made from recycled objects.
You can register for the above tour here.
The second awareness tour will be held at Visy Recycling in Smithfield, Sydney on Wednesday 21 March.
Visitors will be able to see the recycling of post-consumer PET and HDPE bottles back into food grade-quality resins that are being used by brand owners and retailers for use at levels of up to 100 per cent.
The facility is only the second of its type, where both HDPE and PET are recycled to food-grade quality.
You can register for the Visy tour here.
In other news, the AIP recently collaborated with Empauer to undertake research into the attitudes and behaviours of industry across sustainability.
The world-wide survey seeks to compare how the Australian market fares with the rest of the world.
It will provide a state of industry view and will map the activities and barriers that companies navigate in their sustainability efforts.
AIP members and the wider industry are strongly encouraged to complete the short survey here.
The AIP and Empauer will release the survey results in early 2018.
