According to a September 8, 2020 National Geographic story https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/science/2020/09/plastic-food-packaging-outpaces-cigarette-butts-most-abundant-beach-trash “… Candy wrappers and chip bags have become the most commonly found beach trash … That dreary statistic is among the findings in the Ocean Conservancy’s latest report on its annual beach cleanup … The other items in the top ten relate to food and drink, and most of those are not recyclable. The list includes bottles and caps, straws and stirrers, cups, lids, take-away containers, and plastic bags … Complicating matters, much of food packaging either fails to get recycled by consumers or can’t be recycled at all … Only 13 percent of plastic containers and packaging were recycled in the United States in 2017 …” #PlasticWaste #Recycling #SingleUsePlastic #PlasticPackaging
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).
