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Bookings are open for the second virtual training course run by the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), which is to be held on 7 July. Anyone in the packaging industry around the world is invited to attend.

This next course is entitled “Introduction to Sustainable Packaging Design”. It aims to help industry professionals work their way through the maze of demands to change packaging to meet environmental challenges.

AIP said the course would provide attendees a better understanding of the practical guidelines and criteria needed to design and develop sustainable packaging including the sustainability hierarchy of reduce, reuse, then recycle and the circular economy approach to packaging and the environment.

Course objectives

  • To provide participants an understanding of the current environmental issues that are impacting the producers of packaging and the manufacturers and retailers of packaged product.
  • To provide participants an understanding of sustainable packaging design and the practical design guidelines and approaches required in the packaging design process including End of Life (EoL) thinking.
  • To provide participants with a better view of Best Practice Examples and Case Studies of award-winning Sustainable Packaging and Save Food Packaging innovations.

Additional training courses in the series include: "Future of Sustainable Labelling” 21 July; “The New World of Plastics Technology: Polymers & Recycling” (New Course) 11 August; and “Implementing the Sustainable Packaging Guidelines within your Business: (New Course) 1 September.

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