As a part of the Australian Institute of Packaging’s commitment to the National Food Waste Strategy the Institute has developed a new half-day training course on The Role of Packaging in Minimising Food Waste. The first course will be held on the 21 March in Melbourne, Victoria with all of industry invited to attend.
This course is ideally suited to packaging technologists, designers, engineers, marketers, production and procurement managers and for industries across the food supply chain (farm to fork).
Karli Verghese FAIP, Principal Research Fellow, Industrial Design program School of Design, RMIT University, Melbourne, will present the course.
Course objectives:
- Understanding of where and why food loss and waste occurs.
- Understanding the role of packaging in minimising loss through the supply chain and at the household level.
- Understanding of key packaging design criteria to minimise food loss/waste.
- Appreciation of the environmental life cycle profile of food, packaging and food waste.