According to a January 5, 2020 Financial Times story the European Union is considering “… an EU-wide tax on plastics waste and to use profits from carbon trading to break an impasse over how to fund the bloc’s next long-term budget … The surcharge is estimated to raise €42bn over the course of the budget which will run until 2027 …” #PlasticWaste #PlasticPackaging #FoodPackaging #PackagingTax
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).
