EVENT PREVIEW | DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Sustainability and design
AMI’s new Design for Sustainability conference brings together leading experts to discuss design and its role in the circular economy. We preview the event
Main image: Design is expected to play a key role in the develop- ment of products that support the creation of a more sustain- able circular economy
AMI’s Design for Sustainability conference provides an opportunity for professionals from across the entire plastics supply chain to come together to discuss and debate the latest trends and develop- ments within product design and exchange ideas on how business can rethink design processes and product attributes to enable the move to a greener economy. The two-day international conference will take place on the 11- 12 December in London in the UK. It will bring thought leaders in product and indus- trial design, technical specialists, R&D professionals and engineers, together with high-profile sustain- ability experts and brand owners. Design for Sustainability will open with a presen-
tation by Dr Chris Sherwin, Director of the UK- based sustainable and innovation design consul- tancy Reboot Innovation. He will look at the front end of the design process and explain why sustain- ability means having the full lifecycle in mind from day one. Sherwin will be followed by Dr Fiona Charnley, Senior Lecturer in Circular Innovation at Cranfield University in the UK, who will focus on how to create value from the circular economy.
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Then Simon Gandy, Principal Consultant for UK-based consultancy Ricardo Energy & Environ- ment, will explore how Life Cycle Assessment can be used to investigate the environmental pros and cons of packaging alternatives. The conference then turns its attention to the automotive sector. Dr Irene Colicchio, Sustainabil- ity Engineer at DSM Engineering Plastics in the Netherlands, will bring the audience up to date with the latest lightweighting developments. She will be followed by Jamie Shaw, Technical Special- ist Whole Vehicle Sustainability at Jaguar Land Rover in the UK, who will explore the latest developments from an end user perspective.
Packaging sustainability The conference will then move to address packaging. Peter Skelton, Senior Partnerships Manager at waste action group WRAP in the UK, will open the session with an explanation of the organisation’s plastics pact, detailing its goals and what it has achieved with some of the biggest global names in plastics packaging to date. He will be followed by Dr Karlheinz Haus- mann, R&D Fellow at Dow in Switzerland, who will
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