On March 20, 2020, the UN Environment Program https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/microplastics-wastewater-towards-solutions announced that a study is underway, tentatively titled: “Assessing available technologies and providing a toolkit of options of technologies to remove plastic, microplastic and microfibres from wastewater and sludge” – In announcing the forthcoming study, UNEP notes that “… Over time, plastic products tend to shed smaller particles through natural weathering processes, creating microplastics, defined as less than 5mm in size … They have been identified in the intestinal tract of zooplankton, river-bed organisms, and mussels. They can result in gut blockage and starvation … In Europe and North America, hundreds of thousands of tonnes of microplastics are added to soils annually through sewage sludge …” – The report is expected to be released within 4 to 10 months …” #MicroPlastics #FoodPackaging #PlasticPackaging #SingleUsePlastic
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).
