According to an October 6, 2020 Resource-Recycling dot com story “… The Recycling Partnership on Sept. 29 released “Accelerating Recycling” a policy document outlining a proposal that includes fees paid by brands and packaging producers … [and which] goes into details on a per-ton disposal fee that could be required at landfills, incinerators and waste-to-energy plants, with the revenue going to local governments for recycling programs. That surcharge would come in addition to current tip fees at those disposal sites … the American Chemistry Council (ACC) published a document indicating … support for packaging fees across multiple material types as well as disposal fees to equalize the costs of disposal versus recycling … The fees outlined by The Recycling Partnership would be paid by brands based on the amount of packaging and printed paper sold in the retail sector … The program would offer “eco-modulation” discounts” …” – Web links to the story and policy document are included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News www.pfpw.news at https://pfpw.news/pfpw-news-archives/
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).
