On April 16, 2020, the Consumer Brands Association (CBA) https://consumerbrandsassociation.org/press-releases/cpg-industry-calls-for-standardized-recycling-system/ released its “policy platform” https://consumerbrandsassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Recycling-Policy-Platform.pdf “… with recommendations to achieve the country’s optimal recycling system …” – The policy platform represents “… the views of the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, and focuses on finding scalable solutions to address the underlying issues in the recycling and recovery system … The CPG industry supports a national solution to fix the country’s broken recycling system requiring three key elements: a standard foundation; long-term financing mechanisms …; and strong end-markets to meet demand … Recycling is not the final or only solution to our packaging challenges, but without a functioning recycling system, there is no second life for valuable material … CBA launched the Recycling Leadership Council, a diverse group of stakeholders … committed to working together to effect change …” #Recycling #FoodPackaging #SingleUsePlastic #PlasticWaste
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).
