Rethinking Packaging and Reverse Logistics for Pharma Sustainability

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges and solutions for sustainable packaging in the life sciences and MedTech air cargo sectors.

Sustainable Packaging in Life Science & MedTech Air Cargo Frank Van Gelder, Secretary General of Pharma.Aero, and his guests dive into a critical challenge: reducing the environmental impact of tertiary packaging in air cargo. How can the industry move towards more sustainable, reusable, and recyclable packaging solutions without compromising safety and efficiency? Joining the discussion are: ✔ Claire Jung, Global Transportation Quality Manager at Zoetis ✔ Olav Glorvigen, Dire...

People in this episode

Host: Frank Van Gelder

Guests: Claire Jung, Olav Glorvigen

Topics covered

• sustainable packaging
• air cargo
• reverse logistics
• pharma sustainability
• environmental impact
• reusable packaging

Keywords

• sustainable packaging
• air cargo
• pharma
• recyclable solutions
• environmental impact
• logistics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pharma.Aero, Zoetis

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