According to an August 23, 2020 Office of the UC President News Release https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-moves-scrap-single-use-plastics all university campuses and medical centers “… are phasing out single-use plastics … will focus on food service and retail outlets … UC researchers have shown that plastics can have a significant impact on the environment as only a small fraction of such products … are recycled … Plastic bags in retail and food service establishments will be eliminated by Jan. 1, 2021 … Single-use plastic dining accessories … will be eliminated and replaced with local compostable or reusable alternatives by July 1, 2021 … Dine-in facilities will provide reusable food service items … for food consumed on site by July 1, 2022, and to-go facilities will provide reusable or locally compostable alternatives … Campus food service operations will phase out the purchase, sale and distribution of single-use plastic beverage bottles by Jan. 1, 2023 … This systemwide policy allows campuses to decide how to tailor the implementation …” #SingleUsePlastic #Microplastic #Microplastics #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).
