Technical Program
Updated 12/16/2019
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Updated 12/16/2019
Monday, December 16, 2019 |
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| 11:00 AM | 11:30 AM | Registration |
| 11:30 AM | 11:45 AM | Opening Ceremony |
| Welcome remarks from the Chairs: Mike Levy, First Environment & Minal Mistry, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) | ||
| 11:45 AM | 1:30 PM | Technical Session 1 Packaging Sustainability Today |
| Caroline Taylor, EarthShift Global: Bouncing Back? Single Use Plastic Bans and the Potential for Rebound Effects | ||
| Todd Gasparik, Smart Planet Technologies: Top 5 Pillars of Sustainable Paper-Based Barrier Packaging | ||
| Geoffrey Lonca, CIRAIG, Canada: The US PET Bottle Market: A Mismatch between Product Circularity, Material and Environmental Efficiency | ||
| 1:30 PM | 2:30 PM | Lunch |
| 2:30 PM | 4:00 PM | Panel 1: Sustainability Frameworks - what are we fighting for? Since 1987 sustainability has been described as a way to balance the environmental, social, and economic considerations related to human enterprise worldwide. Since then several sustainability frameworks including Zero Waste, Sustainable Materials Management (SMM), and Circular Economy have promoted versions highlighting slices of the whole sustainability story. None working for the whole. Each framework has attributes important to specific areas of industrial activities. Yet the solutions are in common. This session will discuss the focus areas of each framework and highlight how to fill various gaps to achieve deeper sustainability. In addition, expert panelists will discuss high-level approaches including policy suggestions that can level the playing field and move us collectively towards improved materials stewardship. |
| Moderator: Wendy Young, Chemstations | ||
| Minal Mistry, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality | ||
| Q&A and discussion | ||
| 4:00 PM | 5:00 PM | Welcome Reception |
Tuesday, December 17, 2019 |
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| 8:30 AM | 9:00 AM | Registration |
| 9:00 AM | 10:15 AM | Panel 2: Scale Matters – Packaging, MSW and GHG Emissions |
| Moderator: Mike Levy, First Environment | ||
| Minal Mistry, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality | ||
| Martin Brown, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality | ||
| Q&A and discussion | ||
| 10:15 AM | 10:45 AM | Break |
| 10:45 AM | 12:25 PM | Panel 3: Measurable Progress in Packaging Sustainability Today’s seemingly important discourse about material recovery, landfill diversion, recycling/circularity, and material substitution is in fact decades old. Historically, packaging has been front and center in the material sustainability conversations. Early LCA of competing materials for packaging beverage container types goes back 50 years with Coke Cola evaluating the then new material – plastic – for conveying its soft-drink products. As both roadside and marine litter became a visible concern, it triggered the material recycling ethos as a solution to littering that continues in full force today. Yet, the solutions and actions across the value chain remain essentially the same. What’s the change we seek to make a measurable difference? Are we agreed on the outcomes? Are the actions appropriate to the issues at hand? This session will take a brief look into the history, the deep thinking that has taken place, and the actions implemented to understand what’s missing for deeper material stewardship for the industry. |
| Part 1: Industry Commitments | ||
| Moderator: Mike Levy, First Environment | ||
| Christoph Koffler, thinkstep Inc. | ||
| Kyla Fisher, AMERIPEN | ||
| Conrad MacKerron, As You Sow | ||
| Q&A and discussion | ||
| 12:25 PM | 1:25 PM | Lunch |
| 1:25 PM | 2:55 PM | Part 2: Source Reduction |
| Moderator: Minal Mistry, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality | ||
| David Wagger, Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries: A Different View of Source Reduction | ||
| Adam Peer, American Chemistry Council | ||
| Christopher Richard, Lockheed Martin: Using Streamlined LCA to Assess Packaging Requirements in Aerospace and Defense | ||
| Q&A and discussion | ||
| 2:55 PM | 3:20 PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:20 PM | 4:20 PM | Technical Session 2 Research in Packaging Sustainability |
| Shannon Thoits and Chuck Frazier, Apeel Sciences: LCA of an Innovative Shelf Life Extension Technology | ||
| Christoph Koffler, thinkstep Inc., Liviri | Otter Products LLC: The Environmental Advantages of Reusable and Insulated Plastic Containers for Shipping Perishable Food Items | ||
| Ghasideh Pourhashem, North Dakota State University: Life Cycle Environmental Impact Assessment of Epoxidized Sucrose Soyate: A Soy-Based Adhesive | ||
Wednesday, December 18, 2019 |
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| 9:00 AM | 9:15 AM | Registration |
| 9:15 AM | 10:00 AM | Plenary Session |
| Mike Levy, First Environment: Harmonizing Circular Economy Practices in an ISO Global Standard - Implications for Sustainable Packaging | ||
| 10:00 AM | 11:00 AM | Technical Session 3 Innovative Technologies |
| Teresa Clark, ENSO Plastics: The Sustainable Plastics Economy | ||
| Caroline Taylor, EarthShift Global: Keeping our eyes on the prize: including measurable design targets and avoiding unintended consequences | ||
| 11:00 AM | 11:45 AM |
Interactive Workshop: Call to action and Next steps Led by: Mike Levy, First Environment & Minal Mistry, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) |
| Open to all SPS participants | ||
| 11:45 AM | 12:00 PM | Closing Remarks |