The only course developed by the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), The Essentials of Sustainable Packaging is structured around the SPC's "Definition of Sustainable Packaging" and provides critical insights, design considerations, and innovative examples from the packaging industry.
Sustainability is a good business practice offering economic advantages as well as a positive public relations message. The Essentials of Sustainable Packaging course will help you understand and face the challenges to achieving sustainability with your packaging choices and design.
Major retailers and consumer brand companies are factoring in the environmental and social implications of packaging to their decisionmaking process. Sustainability is a good business practice offering economic advantages as well as a positive public relations message. The Essentials of Sustainable Packaging course will help you understand and face the challenges to achieving sustainability with your packaging choices and design.
The Essentials of Sustainable Packaging course is developed and taught by professionals from the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), the Packaging Association(PAC), Walter Soroka & Associates, Packaging & Technology Integrated Solutions, LLC (PTIS), and Global Sustainability Solutions, Inc. (GSSI).
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), a project of GreenBlue, is an industry working group dedicated to creating and implementing sustainable packaging solutions. The SPC is internationally recognized as the definitive resource for credible information about packaging sustainability.
The Packaging Association is a not-for-profit, package-neutral corporation established in 1952. PAC membership includes over 450 corporate companies and 1000 associate members from some of the most recognized North American retailers, consumer packaged goods manufacturers, packaging converters, suppliers, packaging machinery and professional service companies. More than 20 percent of SPC members are also members of PAC.
Walter Soroka and Associates specializes in packaging education programs and solving complex packaging problems. Mr. Soroka draws from an extensive background in various materials science capacities gained during his 23 years at the Ontario Research Foundation. In 1989, Mr. Soroka designed Canada's first three-year Packaging Management and Technology program for Mohawk College and serves as a professor at Mohawk. The IOPP's Fundamentals of Packaging Technology course is based on a book authored by Walter, the Fundamentals of Packaging Technology.
PTIS and GSSI are leading management consulting firms with an innovative approach to packaging with a focus on sustainability. Co-founders Mike Richmond and Brian Wagner each have extensive experience having worked for Kellogg's, Kraft, Michigan State University, Sara Lee, Multiform Desiccants, Carton-Craft Corp., Burger King and General Foods. Over the last seven years PTIS has helped over 100 leading organizations achieve better results through strategic organizational work as well as developing new growth and productivity initiatives across packaging.
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