Webinar streamed live on 18th November 2019.
Food packaging protects the content, extends shelf life, and shares product information. However, packaging also results in waste. To what extent is food packaging creating added value?
This webinar with Helen Williams (Karlstad University) and Richard Swannell (WRAP Global) discusses the role of packaging in reducing food waste and what is needed to change towards a more sustainable society.
“The main thing we need to focus on is the thinking in a holistic perspective where we talk and realise that there are more things to focus on right now, and we need holistically designed programmes.”
– Helen Williams –
“The main thing we need to focus on is the thinking in a holistic perspective where we talk and realise that there are more things to focus on right now, and we need holistically designed programmes.”
– Richard Swannell –
Helen Williams
Associate Professor, Karlstad University
Helén Williams is an associate professor of Environment and Energy system and part of the multi-disciplinary Service Research Center at Karlstad University. For the past 10 years, she has been done innovative research in the area of Packaging for Sustainable Development. It is about understanding the role of packaging for resource efficiency in the value chain and specifically their role in households. Packaging initiatives that save food are most often more important than the material used in the packaging. Packaging has a role to play to fulfill the United Nations Sustainable Development goal 12.3 to halve global per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels. Helén is strongly committed to contributing to sustainable development and she teaches the subject at different University courses. She is also a frequently invited speaker, to inspire and educate in governmental organisations in business and research conferences.
Richard Swanell
Director, WRAP Global
Richard is committed to working on ways of reducing man’s impact on the environment. A biochemist by training, he has a strong expertise in delivering more resource efficient and sustainable practices within businesses, and on reducing food waste and increasing recycling. He is Director of WRAP GLOBAL, a business unit of WRAP- a UK charity, at the forefront of the circular economy – thought leaders, champions of action and catalysts for change. Richard joined WRAP in 2004, leading the team that created and delivered the innovative ‘Courtauld Commitment’ – the first agreement of its kind between WRAP and UK supermarket retailers committed to an ambitious and collaborative approach to packaging and food waste reduction.
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