On April 15, 2020, EPA announced through its Sustainable Materials Management Listserv https://www.epa.gov/smm that a webinar would be held from 1 to 2 pm EDT on April 23, 2020 https://www.epa.gov/smm/sustainable-materials-management-smm-web-academy-webinar-sustainable-materials-management-smm titled “EPA Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Prioritization Tools: Sustainability Insights at a Glance” – The “… webinar introduces EPA’s SMM Prioritization Tools. These life cycle-based tools offer a starting place for governments, trade associations, NGOs, companies, small enterprises, and other organizations to establish priorities for environmental improvement, focus their limited financial and human resources where action could offer greater holistic benefit, and consider key industries for collaboration …” #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #FoodPackaging
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).
