A forum for changemakers
Held in June 2019, the Unwrapped Conference was a science translation / teaching event to empower scientists, activists, health providers, and corporate leaders to protect public health and the environment from food packaging chemicals and plastics.
OUR TOPICS
Human health effects of food packaging chemicals.
Micro and nano plastics and threats to health.
Challenges in China and developing nations.
Regulatory failure and policy solutions.
Alternative business models- ending throw away.
OUR SPEAKERS
Leading scientists who are adept at translating science for non-scientists, activists from across the globe, and communications specialists.
GOALS
Personalize the threats of disposable food packaging in order to drive demand for safer, less-disposable food packaging.
- Recordings of Proceedings
- Tools for Assessing the Impacts of Food Packaging & Plastics
- Regulatory Loopholes for Food Packaging Chemicals
- Packaging Design, Recycling, and the Circular Economy
- Micro Plastics... Micro or Macro Impacts?
- Health Matters: Packaging Chemicals and Human Health
- Materials & Chemicals in Food Packaging
- Keynote
Additional Presentations
Strategies to Reduce Single-Use Packaging
EU Action to Reduce Single-Use Plastics
Justine Maillot
Plastic Work in China
Mao Da
Looking Back to Move Forward
Von Hernandez
Changing The Throw-Away Culture in the U.S.
Miriam Gordon
Speakers
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Beau Baconguis
GAIA
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Bjorn Beeler
IPEN
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Linda S. Birnbaum
National Institutes of Health
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Meadhbh Bolger
Friends of the Earth Europe
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Mao Da
China Zero Waste Alliance
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Tamara Galloway
University of Exeter
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Birgut Geueke
Food Packaging Forum
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Miriam Gordon
Upstream
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Ksenia Groh
Food Packaging Forum
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Von Hernandez
Break Free From Plastic
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Jen Jackson
San Francisco Department of the Environment
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Maricel Maffini
Independent Consultant
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Justine Maillot
Zero Waste Europe
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Jane Muncke
Food Packaging Forum
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Pete Myers
Environmental Health Sciences
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Randy Olson
Marine biologist, filmmaker, writer
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Mark Rossi
BizNGO & Chemical Footprint Project
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Gretchen Lee Salter
Safer States
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Martin Scheringer
Masaryk University
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Leo Trasande
National Institute of Health
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Laura Vandenberg
University of Massachusetts
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Martin Wagner
Norwegian University for Science & Technology
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Michael Warhurst
CHEM Trust
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Tracey Woodruff
University of California San Francisco
Conference Partners
Conference Sponsors