According to an April 29, 2020 New Food Magazine story https://www.newfoodmagazine.com/news/109374/nestle-to-co-fund-sustainable-materials-research-to-tackle-plastic-waste/ “… Nestle and other industry partners … [have] committed to provide CHF 5 million over 10 years to sustainable materials R&D … at the EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland …” – The funding will support a new chair for sustainable materials and research to “… focus on the development of sustainable materials such as alternative packaging to enable the reduction of plastic waste … Research … will address … the overall environmental impact of materials and the exploration of bio-based, bio-degradable and recyclable materials, including high-performance paper-based barrier materials …” #PlasticWaste #Recycling #FoodPackaging #Nestle #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).
