Biopackaging from Feedstock to Waste Stream
- Event Type:
- Conference/Seminar
- Date:
- Sep. 8-10, 2009
- Venue:
- Copthorne Tara Hotel
- Location:
- London , UK
Who Should Attend?
- Authorities / Regulators / Waste management officials
- Brand owners/ End users
- Retailers
- Packaging converters
- Suppliers of polymers resins, biodegradable polymers and biopack materials
- Compounders, additives suppliers and equipment manufacturers
- Academics and consultants
Reasons To Attend
- Get a brand owner’s perspective on sustainable packaging from the Tetley Group brands
- Listen to Cradle to Cradle Design as an innovation platform from Michael Braungart
- Gain insight from NatureWorks on the environmental footprint of bioplastics
- Learn about biopackaging waste management from Organic Waste Systems
- Hear the food manufacturer’s view of biopackaging from the Food and Drink Federation
- Get up to date with Coopbox Group on the evolution of bioplastics packaging in fresh food applications
- Learn from Frost & Sullivan about the market trends for sustainable materials for packaging
Principles & Concepts of Biobased and Biodegradable Materials/Plastics
There is increasing awareness on the part of companies in looking for biobased and biodegradable materials/plastics for packaging of their products (wherein both biobased and biodegradability are important criteria). This allows a company to contribute to reducing their carbon footprint and ensuing that the disposal of their product after use is environmentally responsible. Thus bioplastics and biodegradable materials/plastics are finding increasing attention as materials of choice for industrial and consumer packaging applications. This workshop teaches the principles and concepts of this new and emerging technology, its rationale and drivers, and the value proposition it offers to businesses. Researchers in Universities and Institutes, and Government officials implementing or creating environmental policy would greatly benefit from the workshop as it will help in learning and understanding the fundamental principles, and value proposition of biobased and biodegradable materials/plastics and products for carbon management and environmental responsibility and compliance.
- Introduce basic concepts and principles underlying “bio” biobased and biodegradable materials
- Value proposition for “biobased materials”; “biodegradable materials”, terminology/definitions and relationships
- How incorporating “bio content” allows you to have a reduced or neutral (zero) carbon footprint?
- How to identify and quantify biocontent in a product?
- How to calculate and report the intrinsic carbon footprint reductions of the biobased product/s using biocarbon content values:
- Material carbon footprint
- Process carbon footprint Process energy; Life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology (ASTM D7075; ISO 14040)
- End-of-life options issues in reporting carbon and environmental footprint
- Biodegradability as an end-of-life option
- Metrics for measuring biodegradability
- Constraints around biodegradability and the use of the term “biodegradability”
- Biodegradable, compostable, anaerobic digestion, waste to energy, landfill, soil, marine principles behind test methods for quantifying biodegradability
- Sorting through facts, claims, and hypes on biodegradable plastics
Speakers Include
- Air Innovation
- Be Natural
- Belu
- Bolice
- Carton Edge
- Closed Loop Recycling
- CNRS
- Coca-Cola European Union Group
- Coopbox Group spa
- CSR Associates
- Elipso
- Enviros Consulting Ltd
- EPEA International
- European Commission
- FKuR Kunststoff GmbH
- Food and Drink Federation
- French Plastic and Flexible Packaging Association
- Frost & Sullivan
- Galactic
- Industry Council for Packaging and the Environment
- Innovia Films
- Limagrain Cereales Ingredients
- National Non Food Crops Centre
- NatureWorks B.V
- Nuon
- Novamont SpA
- Organic Waste Systems n.v.
- PRO Europe
- The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
- The International School of Paper, Print Media and Biomaterials
- Biomaterials Grenoble INP
- The Tetley Group
- University of Applied Sciences
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