On February 26, 2020, Earth Island Institute (EII) filed a suit in the Superior Court of San Mateo County, California https://earthisland.org/journal/index.php/articles/entry/earth-island-coke-pepsi-nestle-plastic-pollution-lawsuit seeking to require several consumer brands, including Coca-Cola, Mars, Nestle and PepsiCo, to abate the alleged harm caused by the widespread distribution of plastic in the environment and for recovery of clean-up costs – The suit https://www.earthisland.org/images/uploads/suits/2020-02-26_Earth_Island_Complaint_FILED.PDF “… includes public nuisance, breach of warranty, and negligence claims … [and] follows in the vein of similar efforts to hold Big Oil, Big Tobacco, and Big Pharma responsible for their knowing contribution to public harms and simultaneous effort to obscure those harms and deflect blame … In the case of plastics, a major part of that misinformation campaign has been the idea that plastic is recyclable, and that any shortcomings when it comes to recycling are those of the consumer, not the producer …” – #FoodPackaging #PlasticWaste #Recycling #MicroPlastic
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).
