Entries are now open for the 2020 Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design Awards for Australia and New Zealand. The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), in conjunction with Packaging New Zealand,
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Packaging initiatives designed to reduce food waste
The scale of food waste globally is epic. It is a huge amount of waste. It is probably one of the biggest environmental challenges of our time. Not only because of the food waste itself, but the resources
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Call for speakers at 2020 AIP Australasian Packaging Conference
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is currently at the planning stage of the 2020 AIP Australasian Packaging Conference that will be held at Crown Promenade on 1 & 2 April. The 2020 Australasian
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Why the food packaging industry needs to sell itself better
Keith Chessell is a packaging evangelist. Being in the industry for the best part of 50 years, he was there at the beginning when consumers and manufacturers alike knew that packaging sustainability was
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The role that resealable packaging plays in minimising food waste
With Australia producing 7.3 million tonnes of food waste across the supply and consumption chain, and a Federal Government National Food Waste Strategy to halve food waste that goes to landfill by 2030,
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AIP heads to Perth with National Packaging Targets initiative
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is heading over to Perth on the 29th and 30th of October to run our ‘Tools to Help you Meet the 2025 National Packaging Targets: PREP & ARL training
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Being truthful about sustainable packaging claims
Honesty when it comes to claims on-pack is becoming more important as consumers start to question the sustainability of packaging.
With the 2025 National Packaging Targets significantly shifting the packaging
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AIP training course heads to NSW
The AIP Use of Lifecycle Assessment Tools for Sustainable Packaging Design training course is aimed at providing an introduction and learning framework for packaging industry professionals to apply lifecycle
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Redesigning packaging with reduce, reuse, recycle in mind
As a consumer, you might have heard about the “Waste Hierarchy” and the 5Rs. From a consumer perspective they are:
• Refuse – do not purchase unwanted items.
• Reduce – eliminate
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• Refuse – do not purchase unwanted items.
• Reduce – eliminate
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AIP sets date for New Future of Flexible Packaging half-day training course
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) have announced that they have introduced a NEW Future of Flexible Packaging Half-Day Training Course to the educational portfolio with the 28th of August being
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AIP/APCO course looks at National Packaging Targets
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), in partnership with APCO has developed a new training course ‘Tools to help you meet the 2025 National Packaging Targets: PREP & ARL’ with the first
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How innovators save food through sustainable packaging
One of the key objectives of the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), outside of providing the industry with professional packaging education and training, is to continually shine the light on individuals
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Future of Soft Plastics Technical event Part II
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) is pleased to advise that due to popular demand and the recent success of the Future of Soft Plastics Technical event that was held in Victoria, a lunch time
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AIP Members pack 2175kgs of potatoes and carrots for KiwHarvest
As a part of the Australian Institute of Packaging’s commitment to Fighting Food Waste two teams of Members headed to KiwiHarvest in Auckland, NZ over the last month to help pack 2175 kgs of potatoes
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AIP supports Certified Packaging Professional roll out
As the peak professional body for packaging education and training in Australasia it is paramount that the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) offers professional designations that are internationally
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The future of soft plastics to be discussed
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), in conjunction with SPE, will be running a technical dinner to discuss the Future of Soft Plastics on the 8 May in Melbourne and all of industry is invited
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Packaging awards entries close this Friday
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) and Packaging New Zealand, are pleased to advise that submissions are closing on the 8 of March for the 2019 Packaging Innovation & Design Awards (PIDA),
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Packaging’s role in halving food waste by 2030
With Australian consumers throwing away around 3.1 million tonnes of edible food a year, and another 2.2 million tonnes disposed of by the commercial and industrial sector, along with a Federal Government
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Plastic waste – why every gram counts
In my 30 years of HDPE plastic bottle manufacturing, I have become an expert in every aspect of this business. And this is not by chance, but a lot of hard work.
As I focus my efforts on the finite resource
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AIP takes sustainable packaging design course to New Zealand
The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), in conjunction with Packaging New Zealand, will be taking their new “Introduction to Sustainable Packaging Design” half-day training course and
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