Packaging
Join Us For the SPC Spring Meeting!
Registration for the eighth annual SPC Spring Meeting is now open! The meeting, which is open to everyone, will be held April 23-25, 2012 at the Fairmont Royal York in downtown Toronto. The meeting will feature two days of keynote presentations and breakout sessions, a welcome reception, and small group dinners on key topics of interest for the packaging industry. Attendees are also invited to join tours in the Toronto area, including a tour of Peel Integrated Waste Management, the largest facility of its kind in Canada that houses a single stream MRF, a waste transfer station, and an organics composting plant; and the Steam Whistle Brewery, a microbrewery that was named one of Toronto’s greenest buildings. Please visit the event website
for additional event details and registration information, and stay tuned as we announce the complete agenda in the coming months. We hope you will join us and over 300 packaging and sustainability professionals for the leading packaging event of the year!
Chemicals
A Fond Farewell to Topher Buck
After nearly six years at GreenBlue leading the development of CleanGredients, Senior Project Manager Topher Buck ended his full-time employment with GreenBlue at the end of November after he moved to Concord, MA with his family this fall. We're delighted to announce that Topher will continue to be a GreenBlue Senior Fellow and will work with James Ewell
on our chemicals-related projects on a part-time basis in the coming months, but the entire organization is very sad to see him leave his former role. Under Topher's leadership, CleanGredients has grown annually and is used by hundreds of chemical formulators and suppliers. He also has been an integral part of the organization and we are grateful for all that he has done for GreenBlue. Please join us in wishing Topher the best of luck!
Packaging
ESP Mexico City Recap and Upcoming ESP Dates
Project Manager Minal Mistry taught the inaugural session of the Essentials of Sustainable Packaging (ESP) course in Mexico City on November 15th. This public session was presented with the support of Asociación Mexicana de Envase y Embalaje. Attendees of the course expressed significant interest in end-of-life and recovery of packaging materials as Mexico is embarking on efforts to implement material separation and processing for secondary markets. You can find a more detailed recap of the Mexico City course in Minal's latest blog post.
The first session in Hong Kong originally scheduled for November has been rescheduled for February 22-23, 2012. This session will be presented with the support of Hong Kong Productivity Council. The course brochure and registration information is available here. In addition, tailored sessions of the course will be available in both English/Spanish and English/Mandarin starting January 2012. Any organizations interested in a customized session or those interested in being a host to a public session in any Spanish and/or Mandarin speaking regions can contact Minal Mistry directly to discuss details.
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