On August 13, 2020, EPA Region Five will host a webinar from 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time https://www.epa.gov/smm/sustainable-materials-management-smm-web-academy-webinar-review-environmentally-preferable that will “… highlight the results of a project funded by U.S. EPA Region 5 for Michigan Tech University to identify Environmental Preferable Purchasing (EPP) and policies and other opportunities to increase the reuse of recovered plastics. This project surveyed the use of EPP policies in the Midwest and beyond, and identified strengths and needs, both in the region and nationally …” – Attendees will hear about EPP from speakers from Michigan Tech University, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and the California Department of General Services #PlasticWaste #EnvironmentalPreferablePurchasing #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).
