CONFERENCE & SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

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Briefing Session on
“Voluntary Packaging Agreement 2007”

Date	:  January 31 2007, Wednesday
Time	:  10.00 am – 12.00 pm
	(On-site registration begins at 9.30 am)
Venue	: Conference Room, Level 2   SCCCI Building, 47 Hill Street
Fees	: Free-Of-Charge (Registration is required)

Most packaging for our goods such as food, drinks and toiletries end up as trash. Packaging makes up about one-third of household waste. Packaging waste can be recycled. There is also scope to minimise packaging waste by redesign or changing to another material.

Some countries have implemented laws to make producers bear responsibility for the environmental impact of their packaging (e.g. they have to bear the costs for recovery and recycling of the packaging waste).

In Singapore, instead of moving straight away to introducing legislation to curb packaging waste, the National Environment Agency (NEA) has decided to work together with industry to develop a voluntary programme in which industry would have more flexibility to adopt cost-effective solutions for reducing packaging waste. The programme also facilitates and fosters closer collaboration among industry members, the community and the government.

To help businesses better understand this new programme and how you can play a part to reduce packaging waste, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCCI), the National Environment Agency (NEA) and the Packaging Council of Singapore (PCS) will be organising a briefing session on “Voluntary Packaging Agreement 2007”.

The session will be conducted in English, but participants may ask questions in both English and Mandarin.

Topics Discussed:

• Singapore's current waste situation and national strategies to work towards zero waste
• Other countries' experience / systems for reducing packaging waste
• Singapore's Packaging Agreement – objectives, who's involved, what it entails
• How companies in Singapore can participate in reducing packaging waste