“Waste becoming defining image for plastics” is a June 6, 2019 Plastics News story. The story summarizes a presentation made June 5 by Patty Long — the interim president and CEO of the Washington-based Plastics Industry Association — during the Global Plastics Summit 2019 in Houston. She noted the industry is responding by “… proposing federal legislation in the form of the Recover Act … the legislation will be proposed in the next couple of weeks …”. The theme of the Act to be introduced legislation is “Realizing the Economic Opportunities and Value of Expanding Recycling”: RECOVER.
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).
