According to April 30, 2020 Waste360 story https://www.waste360.com/recycling/industry-leaders-launch-plan-close-loop-postconsumer-plastic-bottles American Beverage Association members Coca-Cola, Keurig Dr Pepper and PepsiCo have allocated $100 million over ten years across multiple cities in a partnership with The Recycling Partnership, Closed Loop Partners and the World Wildlife Fund to “… support a new ABA initiative to return postconsumer plastic bottles to the supply chain to make new bottles … the partners are starting in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to increase collection, recycling and processing of plastic bottles … In Fort Worth … citizens will be educated on how to recycle and reduce contamination. In Dallas, the effort will be aimed at improving access to collection in multifamily housing and providing community education. Across the entire North Central Texas Council of governments … a public service campaign will be undertaken to educate residents on best recycling practices …” #Recycling #SingleUsePlastic #PlasticWaste #PolyethyleneTerephthalate
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).
