On April 8, 2020, a paper describing an enzymatic recycling process for food and other packaging made of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) was published in the journal, Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2149-4 – The recycling process was announced in an April 8 news release by the French company Carbios https://carbios.fr/en/carbios-announces-the-publication-of-an-article-on-its-enzymatic-recycling-technology-in-the-prestigious-scientific-journal-nature/ which is “… pioneering new bio-industrial solutions to reinvent the lifecycle of plastic and textile polymers …” – The company has developed “… a novel enzyme, which can biologically depolymerize all polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic waste …” – The company also described a process for recovery of the polymers for manufacture into new PET plastic products – #Recycling #PolyethyleneTerephthalate #PlasticWaste #FoodPackaging #SingleUsePlastic #Carbios #Enzymes
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).
