“Is Recycling Broken? Yes. Do we need to fix it to solve the ocean plastic pollution crisis? Absolutely” is a June 7, 2019 blog post issued by Janis Searles Jones, CEO of the Ocean Conservancy. The post notes that “… Approximately 6,300 million metric tons of plastic waste has been generated since the creation of plastics in the 1950’s. Only 9% of this plastic waste has been recycled, with the remainder incinerated, landfilled or left in the natural environment. Of the roughly 9% that has been recycled, only 10% of that has been recycled more than once; this means that only 1% of all plastic produced has been recycled more than once … [There is] an additional 8 million metric tons (and growing) spilling into the marine environment from land every year … how do we tackle this crisis? First, we must reduce the amount of plastic being produced. We need to start with phasing out unnecessary and single-use plastics … Second, for recyclable plastics, we must collect and recycle them better and smarter …”
Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative
Our reason-for-being/goal/purpose/objective/intent is to convince/inspire/persuade/encourage the food processing industry to establish and fund a public private partnership for the discovery of new food packaging materials that would be digestible by animals (farm animals as well as ubiquitous microbes).
