On June 3, 2020, the EPA Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery announced that a Sustainable Materials Management (SMM) Web Academy Webinar, titled “Procurement of Recycled-Content Products: Stimulating Recycling Markets and Creating Demand” will be held from 1 to 2:30 pm Eastern on June 10, 2020 https://www.epa.gov/smm/sustainable-materials-management-smm-web-academy-webinar-procurement-recycled-content-products – The webinar will “… highlight the role of procurement in stimulating recycling markets, explain the government’s ‘buy-recycled’ program and help facilitate public review of the program … Buying products with recycled content fosters the diversion and recycling of materials from the solid waste stream and promotes the use of these materials in the manufacture of new products. It creates domestic markets for materials collected and recycled through local recycling programs, strengthening local economies and the United States’ recycling system …” #Recycling
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).
