“The Plastic Problem” is the title of a film to be shown online at 3 pm Eastern on Sunday, March 22, 2020 http://www.cpnas.org/events/plastic.html - The film is a documentary prepared by the PBS News Hour which is sponsored by the Cultural Programs Unit of the National Academy of Sciences - An hour before the film, at 2 pm, several panelists will discuss film highlights – In announcing the film, the PBS News Hour notes that “… By 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. PBS NewsHour takes a closer look at this now ubiquitous material, how it’s impacting the world and ways we can break our plastic addiction …” – Panelists include: Amna Nawaz and Lorna Baldwin of the PBS NewsHour and Lillian Power, Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE) of the District of Columbia; the Moderator will be Taylor Maddalene of National Geographic, where she serves as the Director of the Plastics Initiative https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/planetorplastic/
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).
