| Academic degree: | Prof. |  | | Last name: | Sonneveld | | First name: | Kees | | Responsible for: | | | Organization/Institute: | Victoria University of Technology (W076) | | Department: | Centre for Packaging, Transportation and Storage | | Position: | | | Street, Number, POB: | P.O. Box 14428 | | Postal code, City: | Melbourne City MC, Victoria 8001 | | State: | | | Country: | Australia | | Phone: | +6139216 8043; mobile: 04 | | Fax: | +6139216 8074 | | E-mail address: | kees.sonneveld@vu.edu.au | | Url: | | | Curriculum vitae: | Following his education as an agricultural engineer at Wageningen University, Kees Sonneveld specialized in packaging technology including the evaluation of packaging systems with regard to environmental impacts. After working for 15 years at the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research TNO, during which time he led significant research and case studies regarding packaging LCAs, in 1995 he was appointed founding director of the Centre for Packaging, Transportation and Storage at Victoria University in Melbourne. - - -
In Australia, Kees Sonneveld is leading the dissemination of the LCA approach to food and packaging supply chain stakeholders and has been one of the initiators towards the establishment of the Australian LCA Society. He is currently leading the establishment of a national Research and Development platform in sustainable packaging systems which will focus on role in defining and demonstrating sustainable packaging concepts and creating commercial solutions. - - -
Professor Sonneveld is a longstanding board member of the International Association of Packaging Research Institutes, Chairman of the management committee for the Australian Environmental Code of Practice for Packaging, and Vice-President of the Australian Life Cycle Assessment Society. In November 2002, he has joined the editorial board of ´The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment´. | | Areas of interest: | | screening LCA | | packaging waste management | | packaging systems | | life cycle costing | | LCA methodology concerning packaging applications | | data quality | | |
| | Articles: | 7 LCA (3) 151-157 (2002), Stakeholder Involvement in Australian Paper and Packaging Waste Management LCA Study
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