An article in the February 23, 2020 Minneapolis Star Tribune, titled “Lobbying group fights surge of bills targeting plastic packaging” http://m.startribune.com/lobbying-group-fights-insurgence-of-bills-targeting-plastic-packaging/568127282/ addresses the efforts companies are taking to oppose State legislative efforts to address plastic waste challenges brought on by “… Faltering recycling systems and concerns about ocean plastics … The political fight illustrates larger tensions that corporations … face as they balance competing consumer desires for convenient and sustainable packaging … [Companies are] mobilized to fight so-called extended producer responsibility laws, or EPR, that make corporations that produce packaging pay for recycling programs … The costs of processing recycling today is largely covered by local governments and their residents …” #FoodPackaging #PlasticWaste #Recycling #PlasticPackaging
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).
