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Download this free, one-hour Webcast and learn how to submit your data and pass the new third-party review process for the Greener Package Database. Learn to make credible, supportable and bulletproof sustainability claims for your sustainable packaging product.
Victor Bell, President of Environmental Packaging International (EPI), will show you how to avoid making a claim that would be considered greenwashing; what environmental benefit you can and cannot legitimately claim; how to comply with Greener Package's new Guidelines to Sustainability Claims and more! David Newcorn, Vice President of eMedia for Summit Publishing, will explain why third-party review is being used; the benefits to suppliers for participating and having data reviewed by a third-party; the connection between third-party-reviewed data and ECRM's Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Sustainable Packaging Scorecard Modeling Software and more!
This Webcast is ideal for packaging raw material suppliers, packaging converters, suppliers and distributors of converted packaging, and consumer packaged goods companies who want to understand what to demand of their suppliers in the way of sustainability claims accountability.
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Victor Bell is President of Environmental Packaging International (EPI), a consultancy specializing in global environmental packaging and product stewardship requirements. Bell, who founded EPI in 1998, is a Certified Packaging Professional with more than 20 years of experience with environmental issues associated with packaging and products. EPI has provided assistance to major companies worldwide in the electronics, retail, toy, soft drink, cosmetics, medical, and general merchandise industries. EPI provides consulting on a range of product stewardship issues. Bell has served on the Executive Committee of the Sustainable Packaging Coalition. He has MMA (Marine Affairs) and BS (Natural Resource) degrees from the University of Rhode Island and an MS (Urban and Environmental Studies) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
David Newcorn is VP/eMedia for Greener Package and Summit Publishing, with responsibilities across all Summit’s packaging-focused digital media. Originally an editor on Packaging World magazine for ten years, Newcorn authored the original cover story on the Cradle-to-Cradle philosophy in 2003 and was the first to explore its application to the packaging field. It was his idea to convene the industry’s first working group on packaging sustainability in the summer of 2003, and the companies that attended went on to found what is today known as the Sustainable Packaging Coalition.
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October 26, 2009
2:00pm EST, 1:00pm CST, 11:00am PST
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