According to a report published June 22, 2020 in the journal Nature by researchers in China and the US https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-020-0707-4 “… the fates of microplastics (0.1–5 mm in size) and nanoplastics (<100 nm) in marine environments are being increasingly well studied … little is known about the behaviour of nanoplastics in terrestrial environments … especially agricultural soils … we show that both positively and negatively charged nanoplastics can accumulate in Arabidopsis thaliana [a small flowering weed native to Eurasia and Africa found by roadsides and in disturbed land https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabidopsis_thaliana] … Our findings provide direct evidence that nanoplastics can accumulate in plants, depending on their surface charge. Plant accumulation of nanoplastics can have both direct ecological effects and implications for agricultural sustainability and food safety …” #Microplastics #NanoPlastic
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).
