According to a June 3, 2020 CHEManager Magazine story https://www.chemanager-online.com/en/whitepaper/science-enable-sustainable-plastics the Chemical Sciences and Society Summit (CS3) has released an extensive White Paper https://www.chemanager-online.com/file/track/50387/1 titled “Science to enable sustainable plastics” providing analyses of the presentations, discussions and outcomes of the 8th CS3 meeting, held November 10 to 13, 2019 in London, UK – The goals of the meeting were to “… assess the current status of sustainable plastics, identify the most pressing research challenges … and make recommendations about how the field should progress … Developments in chemistry will be key to understand and mitigate the impact of plastics in the environment …” – The summary report contains the following four research challenges: To understand the impacts of plastics throughout their life cycles … To develop new sustainable plastics … Closed-loop plastics recycling; and To understand and control plastic degradation …” – The White Paper is significantly more detailed than can be summarized here #Recycling #PlasticWaste #Microplastics
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).
