Unboxed: Packaging Workshops for Food and Beverage Manufacturers - Margaret River

Join DPIRD for a half day to discuss all things sustainable packaging for the food and beverage businesses. Lead by Ralph Moyle and Nerida Kelton from the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), the workshop will take participants through regulations, trends and guidelines for packing their product.

Participants will be able to walk away from the workshop with a better understanding of:

• Global, domestic and local WA new packaging and waste regulations, including regulations for single use plastics, extended producers, FOGO, compostable packaging and eco packaging.

• How to design your packaging to be recycle ready

• The importance of data in packaging

• Packaging design guidelines for sustainable and accessible and inclusive packaging

• Addressing food waste and loss through packaging guidelines

Get to know our speakers

Ralph Moyle

Ralph Moyle has been expanding packaging knowledge for over 40 years and has been a mentor, trainer and educator for most of this time. He is an instrumental educator within the Australian Institute of Packaging and runs numerous training courses, lecturing sessions, is a lecture within the Master of Food & Packaging Innovation Degree, is the AIP education Coordinator and is responsible for ensuring that all of the students are taken care of for the Diploma in Packaging Technology and Certificate in Packaging degrees that the AIP offer. Ralph has single-handedly trained more people in Australia and New Zealand than anyone else. Ralph was instrumental in training over 1000 people in the last 12 months in Sustainable Packaging and Design, 2025 National Packaging Targets, implementing the PREP tool and Australasian Recycling Label across Australia and New Zealand.

Nerida Kelton

Nerida has worked in the Packaging industry for over 27 years, with 24 years working for the AIP; the peak professional body for packaging training and education in Australasia. As an active lecturer and trainer in the AIP educational portfolio Nerida is committed to helping educate and train packaging professionals in the importance of sustainable and circular packaging design, how to design out waste at the start and believes that it is important to showcase and recognise best practice in these areas. Earlier this year Nerida was awarded her Fellowship for her significant contribution to the packaging industry through training and education across the globe. Nerida was recently invited to join the 8x person newly established DCCEEW Federal Government National Packaging Design Standard Working Group and she is also on the Collective Action Group for APCO, which is an advisory group to the Federal Government. Nerida is also very passionate about educating the industry on the important role that packaging plays in minimising Food Waste and how designing Save Food Packaging can make a difference. She is the lead for the Save Food Packaging Consortium project within the End Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre, is published in this area, the lead for the Packaging Working Group on End Food Waste Australia and was the packaging representative on Australia’s National Food Waste Strategy Steering Committee. She recently joined the lecturing team from the Institute for the Master of Food & Packaging Innovation degree at the University of Melbourne and is also the coordinator of the Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design (PIDA) Awards for Australia and New Zealand. Nerida a Member of the International Packaging Press Organisation (IPPO), a Fellow of the AIP and the youngest and first female to have ever received Life Membership to the Australian Supply Chain & Logistics Association.