New Zealand Retailers face “draconian” £52,000 (NZ$100,000) fines for serving plastic bags to customers, according to June 30 UK Independent newspaper story. The Telegraph reports that “… The ban encompasses not only lightweight plastic bags, but also thicker versions handed out by department stores and even ‘environmentally friendly’ biodegradable and compostable options … it will be left to shoppers themselves to police the law and report offenders … Underpinning the ban is the determination of the government to cut the amount of plastic ending up in rivers and oceans in order to minimise the threat faced by vulnerable seabirds, fish and other marine mammals …”
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).
