About Repak's Prevent and Save Programme:
Repak's Packaging Waste Prevention Programme aims to assist Irish businesses with positive and practical ways to reduce packaging and to promote those achievements to a wider audience.
Though Ireland’s performance in increasing packaging recycling rates in the ten years since Repak was established has been outstanding, there is now an increasing emphasis, both within Ireland and across Europe, to allocate resources to the prevention of packaging and a reduction in its use.
Waste prevention methods help create less waste in the first place. These methods include prevention (removal or avoidance of certain packaging) and minimisation (lightweighting of packaging). This “stop waste before it happens” approach is an integral part of how industry now approaches packaging decisions - avoiding overpackaged, disposable, and nonreusable or nonrecyclable products where possible.
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Speaker Biography: Mr. Colm Munnelly Prior to joining Repak Colm spent ten years with the Jacob Fruitfield Food Group as Packaging Technology Manager. The focus of this position was to manage all aspects of packaging from initial design, through use, recovery and disposal. During his time with the group Colm worked on various packaging waste prevention and recycling initiatives which led to Jacobs winning the first ‘Repak Member of the Year’ award in 2002. |
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