Introduction to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) for Packaging

02/03/2026

SPEAKER

Gloria Carta;  – Sustainability consultant and business developer at Pilario. With five years of experience in the sustainability sector, she has a background in eco-design and packaging innovation as co-founder of BollteBricks, and in Life Cycle Assessment through her work as a consultant at Hedgehog.


PROGRAM

09H45 : Welcome with coffee

10H00: Start Training

  • Generic elements of LCA 
    •  Introduction & concepts to LCA (system boundaries, functional units, data types)
    •  Overview of ISO 14040/44
    •  LCA database
    •  LCA indicators
    •  Data collection, impact assessment, result interpretation


  • Packaging-specific challenges 
    • Recycled content and allocation approaches End-of-life modelling
    • Reusable packaging and implication on LCA results
    •  Biogenic CO2 and cardboard modelisation  
    • Product loss and packaging efficiency (extension of LCA scope)
    • Transport optimisation (extension of LCA scope)


12H00: Lunchbreak 


  • Use case within Pilario software 
    • Build an LCA for two packaging alternatives together (using a template + tool)
    • How to use results in eco-design, EPDs and sustainability claims
    • Interpretation of LCA results and risk misinterpretation


  • Q&A


16H30: End training



Registration: www.ibebvi.com 

Info: marleen.calcoen@ibebvi.com 

Language: English

 Price: All prices do NOT include VAT

  •  Members IBE-BVI € 485.00 
  • Members federation: € 595.00 
  • No member: € 670.00 

Extra info: Timing: The training will start at 8:30 and will end at 16:30 

​Included in the price: Training, course material, coffee break, lunch 

Subsidies: 

  • for PME’s: up to 30% subsidy via KMO-portefeuille 
  • for food companies (PC 118 & PC 220)  via ALIMENTO 
  • for paper- & board processing companies (PC136 & PC 222): via PaperPackSkills - info:  nathalie.govaerts@indufed.be