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Jurlique International – Sustainability has been part of our DNA since 1985

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane. 

Jurlique is an Australian based global skin care company, founded in 1985 and based in the pristine Adelaide Hills. The company has been named as Australia’s Number 1 selling prestige skincare brand from 2014 to 2016, it  is present in over 22 countries and has been successful both due to the unique product characteristics and due to the brand which resonates with consumers globally.

Jon Westover, Managing Director – Global Operations at Jurlique International joins us at the Conference as a Keynote Speaker.

Jon Westover

As the only Australian beauty brand with their own certified biodynamic farm, Jurlique has been the leader in natural skin care science for over 30 years, and applies advanced technologies to natural  ingredients to create high performance, potent skin care for healthy beautiful skin. They have been challenging orthodoxies by competing directly in the marketplace against synthetic competitors’ products.

Sustainability is a core element of the company and integrated across all of their business activities especially formulation, procurement, packaging development, and supplier management. Key initiatives are the production of Natural products from the Biodynamic/Organic Farm, Sustainable Packaging, Waste Management, Supply chain optimisation, Biodiversity and Conservation. The company’s efforts have been recognised by  external stakeholders such as winning the Australian Packaging Covenant Highest Performer Awards in the small personal care category for four years in a row.

More and more consumers demand sustainability in their everyday product choices.  The biggest challenge for Jurlique is to bring new innovative products to the customer while still targeting sustainability goals and financial goals. To achieve these goals, the company needs to keep challenging conventional business strategy as well as influencing their  partners. Sustainability is a fundamental element of their corporate brand position.

Jon Westover has been with Jurlique since 2009 and leads the sustainability strategy across the company in conjunction with the Brand and Commercial teams. He has worked in  global operations roles for a number of International and Australian companies and is a passionate advocate of Jurlique’s sustainability strategy and culture.

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The Business Case for Packaging Sustainability

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane. 

Dr Helen Lewis, Adjunct Professor, Institute for Sustainable Futures at UTS joins us at the upcoming 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference in Brisbane as a Keynote Speaker to discuss ‘The Business Case for Packaging Sustainability’.

Helen Lewis

Most organisations deal with packaging every day. If they don’t make or sell packaging, or packaged products, they generate packaging waste at their farm, factory, office, warehouse, store or building site. Packaging sustainability is therefore a challenge that we all share.

Community concerns about the environmental impacts of packaging have been around for a long time. Industry responses have tended to be reactive, such as advertising to promote the benefits of packaging, sponsorship of litter or waste programs, or development of niche ‘green’ products. These initiatives are all useful, but they don’t go far enough if we want to transform packaging systems to be more circular and sustainable.

This presentation will show how companies that take a more strategic approach to packaging sustainability are generating value for their organisation, for their customers, and for the community.

Dr Helen Lewis runs her own consulting business Helen Lewis Research, providing research and strategic advice to a range of industry and government clients on resource recovery, product stewardship and packaging. She is also an Adjunct Professor with the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology Sydney.

Her previous roles have included Chief Executive of the Australian Battery Recycling Initiative and Director of the Centre of Design at RMIT University.

Helen has written widely on product stewardship and corporate social responsibility including several books. She recently published Product stewardship in action (2016) and is a co-author of Packaging for sustainability (2012) and Design + Environment (2001). She has a PhD in product stewardship and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Packaging.

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Dr Mark Tatam from Kingspan Insulated Panels to join us in March

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane. 

The 2nd annual conference will explore sustainability best practice within organisations, creating resilience in business and ways to implement change.

2018 Topics Include:

  • Integration
  • Politics
  • Technology automation
  • Future of renewables
  • Procurement
  • Food security
  • Sustainable construction
  • Waste as a resource

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Dr Mark Tatam, Building Technology Director at Kingspan Insulated Panels joins us in a few weeks at the Conference to discuss ‘Triple Bottom Line Performance and Sustainability – Kingspan Insulated Panels and The Case for Supply Chain Partners’.

The selection of suppliers by businesses is increasing in importance as the need for more wide-ranging business performance indicators come into focus. Triple bottom line performance and economic, social and environmental performance is now becoming part of the business sustainability performance mix. These needs for a sustainable business have a flow-on effect in procurement and establishing / validating sustainable credentials for its supply chain partners. From a product suppliers perspective it is sound business practice to be able to offer product solutions that not just meet the client’s price, quality and flexibility options but also demonstrate social and environmental credentials as well. This is precisely what the Kingspan Group sets out to achieve.

Kingspan’s vision is to be global leader in sustainable business and establish a leading position in providing sustainable, renewable and affordable best practise solutions for the construction sector.

For more information on the 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference and to secure your spot today, please visit the conference website.

China’s National Sword and The Impact on Australia’s Recycling

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane. 

Mr Mike Ritchie, MRA Director at MRA Consulting Group joins us in March at the Conference to discuss ‘China’s National Sword and The Impact on Australia’s Recycling’.

Traditionally China has been the world’s largest importer of recycled paper and plastics. Chinese buyers have purchased mixed paper and plastic with higher levels of contamination and at higher prices than Australian domestic markets can use or afford. Australia relies heavily on China for recycling, with an estimated two thirds of recovered mixed plastics exported there for processing and recycling.

In mid-July 2017, China notified the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it plans to ban or severely restrict (through an impossible contamination rate requirement of 0.3%) the import of post-consumer plastics plastic, textiles, unsorted paper, artificial fibres, and certain metals along a variety of solid waste and recyclables, that are commonly exported by Australian companies.

Among the reasons cited for the ban are poor quality of materials received; pollution caused by poor recycling practices and small-scale operations; protection of human health and safety; and the need for China to develop its own domestic recovery system for recyclable materials.

The abruptness and uncertainty created by China’s announcement has resulted in major disruptions in both local and global recycling markets. The ban is an international issue with very local negative effects as there is no excess capacity in the recycling markets in Australia to absorb the materials which China intends to ban.

Australian operators that have entered into contracts for the management of waste and recyclables based on the conditions and market outlook preceding the announcement are now facing the possibility of not being able to fulfil their obligations due to the collapse of the demand for recyclables.

This presentation will explore the underlying political factors that have led to the ban, identify key challenges faced by the Australian recycling industry and discuss potential solutions for maintaining the sector’s dynamic.

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Fostering Organisational Citizenship Behaviour for The Environment

The 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference will be held over Thursday 8 and Friday 9 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane. 

The 2nd annual conference will explore sustainability best practice within organisations, creating resilience in business and ways to implement change.

Mr Dominic Piacun, Sustainability Officer at Brisbane Boys’ College joins us to discuss ‘Fostering Organisational Citizenship Behaviour for The Environment’.

More so now than ever, businesses are attempting to become more sustainable. For many established businesses though, engaging individual employees to perform more green behaviours while at work is an obstacle proving difficult to overcome. If effectively cultivated, discretionary employee green actions and behaviours are a vital element for organisations to assist them along the sustainability journey. Indeed, individual employee green behaviours have been found to significantly contribute to the wider environmental sustainability outcomes of the organisation, particularly when combined with established environmental management systems and innovations.

In some contexts, up to 70% of an employee’s green behaviour at work is discretionary. In other words, most employee green behaviour is not explicitly directed by the organisation and exists outside of formal role descriptions. Increasing this discretionary behaviour can have a significant impact on the sustainability of an organisation. Considering this, how can organisations encourage their staff to engage with these behaviours more readily? What are the barriers and drivers to discretionary employee green behaviour? This presentation will outline the barriers and drivers of employee discretionary green behaviour as well as provide some real world strategies that can foster these behaviours. The aim is to arm you with some practical solutions to help engage employees and improve the sustainability of your organisation. This information is based on a case study of Organisational Citizenship Behaviour for the Environment at a large independent school in Brisbane.

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For more information on the 2018 National Sustainability in Business Conference and to secure your spot today, please visit the conference website.