About this event
Aim Apply Achieve
2025 is fast approaching as brands AIM to meet their 2025 Sustainable Packaging Goals. The landscape around sustainability continues to evolve with the introduction of new legislation, advancing technologies, and tools to guide the process. It is imperative to remain informed to keep your packaging sustainability journey accelerating forward.
In this session, you will learn about consumer intent when it comes to sustainable packaging, resources available to help you APPLY proactive design rules when developing eco-responsible packaging, and exciting new advances in flexible technology.
Join in on the conversation to remain ahead of the curve and ACHIEVE your 2025 goals.
AIM: Rebecca Casey, SVP Marketing, Sales, & Strategy TC Transcontinental Packaging
While consumer’s have expressed a preference for sustainable packaging, will the strain of recent economic pressures alter their intent when reaching for a product at retail? Where do brands need to aim to effectively address consumer sentiment and address the hurdles and opportunities in this space.
APPLY: Sandi Childs, Director of Film & Flexible Programs, Association of Plastic Recyclers
Determining a plastic package’s recyclability goes beyond whether a specific municipal program collects it, or whether it’s made from a particular plastic resin. APR’s Design® Guide helps package designers measure each aspect of a package design against industry accepted criteria to ensure that it is truly recycling compatible. Gain knowledge on how to apply the APR Design® Guide to optimize the recyclability of your packaging.
ACHIEVE: Luke Schweitzer, Business Development Manager, ValvPak
Learn how the new, patented flexible valve technology, ValvPak® , provides controlled dispensing and spill-proof containment of liquids in flexible packaging. This exciting packaging development, which meets APR guidelines, provides value-added functionality in a flexible format that will allow brands to achieve sustainability and e-commerce goals.
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Sandi Childs is the Director of Film and Flexible Programs for APR, the Association of Plastic Recyclers. Sandi manages APR’s Film Reclamation Committee and its contributions to APR’s Design® Guide for Plastics Recyclability and PE film test protocols.
TC Transcontinental is a leader in flexible packaging in North America and in retail services in Canada and Canada’s largest printer. The Corporation is also the leading Canadian French‑language educational publishing group.
