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