Webinar – Applying Traceability in Product Stewardship Initiatives

Thursday 7 March | 1:00PM – 2:00PM AEDT

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Applying traceability to product stewardship initiatives

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An informative webinar on the importance of traceability in improving transparency, accountability, and credibility across product supply chains from design and production to consumption and post-consumption. Our presenters discussed the principles of traceability, its applicability to recycled content, data standards, technologies, and its current use in product stewardship schemes and initiatives.

Key themes covered were:

What product and material information are essential for effective stewardship?
How information is identified, captured, and shared across the supply chain.
How these principles are being applied by product stewardship schemes and initiatives in Australia.
How effective traceability can contribute to responsible resource management and a circular economy?

Valuable insights on how traceability can underpin effective product stewardship and transparency while building trust through the supply chain and with consumers.

Following the presentation from our expert panel we opened to a Q&A.

Thursday 7 March | 1:00PM – 2:00PM AEDT

Click below to register now and we look forward to seeing you online.

Speakers

Dharshi Hasthanayake | Manager Sustainability and Circularity

GS1 Australia

Dharshi Hasthanayake brings over a decade of experience in resource recovery, circular economy, and sustainability, blending expertise from consulting to large corporates and to working in Victorian government delivering transformative policy and legislative reform. At GS1 Australia, a global non-profit organization that develops and maintains standards for supply chain management, Dharshi leads the sustainability and circularity work program, enabling industry and government to meet multiple sustainability objectives through streamlined information flow across value chains.

Barry Cosier | Director Sustainability

Australian Food and Grocery Council

Barry Cosier has over 30 years’ experience in both the Resource Recovery Industry and in the Food and Grocery Industry. Like many, he started his working career packing shelves in supermarkets while at university. Since then, he has worked for multinational grocery companies, was CEO of a privately owned Australian food manufacturing company, and represented small to medium enterprises on the Australian Food and Grocery Council board. He then moved into the Resource Recovery industry and was involved in Council contracts, collections, MRF processing and was a member of the NSW EPA Industry Advisory Panel for the China Sword Taskforce. He is currently the Director of Sustainability at the Australian Food and Grocery Council and a member of the Federal Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water Resource Recovery Reference Groups. Over recent years he has led the development of a product stewardship scheme for soft plastics.

David Evans | Senior Policy Officer

Recycled Content Verification and Traceability Section – Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment & Water

David Evans is a career policy officer with extensive experience in generalist social policy. David supported the development of the National Framework for Recycled Content Traceability.

Esther Richards | Assistant Director

Recycled Content Verification and Traceability Section – Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment & Water

Esther is an experienced environmental professional who led development of the National Framework for Recycled Content Traceability from its inception. Prior to joining the department in 2022, Esther worked with the Queensland Government for several years leading important waste and resource recovery policy projects including energy from waste, and end of waste. She has also worked in waste management roles internationally spanning operations management, international development, and policy development.

The Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence is an independent, not for profit charity, that seeks to reduce waste generation and create positive environmental and social outcomes through sustainable design, resource conservation, reuse, repair, and recycling. The Centre helps businesses, industries, and product stewardship organisations to adopt a strong lifecycle approach to deliver their ESG and circular economy objectives. We also provide independent advice on product stewardship priorities to the Australian government.

Product Stewardship Centre of Excellence | c/- Institute for Sustainable Futures | University of Technology | PO Box 123 | Broadway NSW 2007