Track 1:
The Consumer Edge: How to Develop and Market For Package Sustainability

Suzanne Shelton, President/CEO, Shelton Group

Hear an industry-leading advertising agency, involved in sustainable thinking, discuss how to leverage packaging for a growing market of environmentally aware consumers and what can motivate them to buy packages that meet their changing requirements.

Greenwashing and the Green Guides: A View from Underwriters Laboratories

Scot Case, Director of Market Development, UL Environment

Behind the scenes, Underwriters Laboratories has been devoting considerable energies to the issue of greenwashing and ensuring that packaging and consumer products meet the needs of the consumer in their messaging and content. In a not-to-be-missed presentation, UL Environment’s Scot Case will share insights into issues faced in greenwashing and caution the packaging industry on what to expect in the enforcement of standards in the future.

Track 2:
Recycling Challenges and Opportunities: Can Recycling be a Viable End-of-Life Option for Paper-based Foodservice Packaging?

The Issue of Degradable Materials and the PET Resin Stream

The Business Case for Corporate-Level Post-Industrial Sustainable Recycling Initiatives

Track 1:
Eco-Design Standards and Designing a Package Sustainability Strategy

Track 2:
Fiber Sourcing Issues in Packaging: Challenges and Opportunies

Track 1
The Global Packaging Project and Extended Producer Responsibility

Session Moderators:
Gerald Rebitzer, Sustainability Leader, Amcor
Catherine Goodall, Project Director,
    Environmental Packaging Intl (EPI)

Session Participants:
Elisabeth Comere, Director Environment & Government
    Affairs, Tetra Pak
Laura Rowell, Sustainability Manager Consumer Products
    Sonoco

With the release of the Global Packaging Project (GPP), an initiative from many brand owners and retailers to benchmark universal packaging standards, the need to compile metrics and data on packaging initiatives has never been greater. This session will discuss that urgent requirement to create data for retail and brand owners and how this will affect relationships between packaging companies and others within the supply chain.

Extended Producer Responsibility and the Coming Challenge to Packaging Community

Track 2

Beyond Packaging: Sustainability and the Global Environment

Thinking Beyond the Package:Focus on What Matters Most

The Problem of Food and Drink Waste and Packaging’s Contributions

Paul Butler, President, Packaging Materials
     and Technologies Ltd.

Since 2008 the serious issue of food and drink waste has slowly moved up the social and political agenda. A growing number of people now subscribe to the view that ‘reducing food waste should become one of the highest priorities on the environmental agenda. The big issue is not sustainable packaging, but how an entire supply chain, viewed holistically, can be made more sustainable. Improved and novel food-saving packaging could play a complementary role in helping to keep food out of the waste stream.

The Waste-To-Energy Debate: The Evolving Opportunity

Jeff Wooster, Senior Value Chain Manager,
     Dow Chemical Co.

The Dow Chemical Co. has been on the leading edge of the idea that packaging waste is actually a resource that can be converted to energy, and the company believes investing in new technology can help address this global problem.  Dow’s Jeff Wooster will offer potential solutions to the issue and explain Dow’s vision for the use of energy recovery.

Labeling for Recovery: A New Model

Track 1: Sustainable Healthcare Packaging: The Myths and the Truths

Track 2: Trash in the Ocean: Finding Solutions

Session Moderator:
Betsy Dorn, Senior Consultant, StewardEdge

Session Participants:
John Delfausse, Vice President Packaging, Estee Lauder
Patty Debenham, Acting Director, Trash Free
   Seas Initiative, Ocean Conservancy
Giora Proskurowski, Research Scientist,
   University of Washington

Widespread claims of islands of trash in the middle of the ocean have received significant media attention and have stimulated strong public emotions. Trash in the ocean—particularly plastic-based packaging material—is a significant threat globally to marine wildlife, ocean habitat, fishermen, mariners, and coastal communities that depend on healthy, vibrant oceans and waterways.

This session will bring together, a diverse mix of scientists, industry leaders, and Ocean Conservancy, a leading non-governmental organization, to communicate the existing state of the science, industry initiatives to reduce ocean trash, and the need for multidisciplinary collaboration to cultivate ocean trash solutions.