The Ocean Studies Board of the US National Academies of Science is seeking by July 17, 2020, the nomination of individuals to serve on a panel during an 18 month study of US “… contributions to global ocean plastic waste, as defined in the draft ‘Save Our Seas Act 2.0’ bill …” https://mailchi.mp/nas/nominate-an-expert-by-717-for-new-study-on-plastic-in-the-ocean – The study is to “… Evaluate United States contributions to global ocean plastic waste, including types, sources and geographic variations … Assess the prevalence of marine debris and mismanaged plastic waste in saltwater and freshwater … Examine the import and export of plastic waste to and from the United States … Assess the potential value of a national marine debris tracking and monitoring system … Develop recommendations on knowledge gaps … [and] Recommend potential means to reduce United States contributions to global ocean plastic waste …” #PlasticWaste
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).
