LabX, a young adult public engagement program of the National Academy of Sciences, is seeking participants in a May 4 to May 24, 2020 Earth Day “Plastic Games” weekly challenge involving everyday plastic products https://labx.org/eternal/plastic-games/ – The first challenge is to “… construct a tower made entirely out of plastic products …” following rules specified at https://labx.org/eternal/plastic-games-challenge-1-the-tower/ - “… Submissions are to be judged on their creativity (diversity of plastics, design, aesthetics) and difficulty (height of the tower) … ” – A new challenge will be posted each Monday - Photo or video submissions will be due by Sunday at 5 pm ET – “… Three winners will receive a $20 electronic Visa cash card and the seven players with the highest cumulative points across all three weekly challenges will each win a $50 electronic Visa cash card …” #PlasticWaste #LabX #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).
