On October 19, 2020, EPA released the “U.S Federal Strategy for Addressing the Global Issues of Marine Litter” – “… The strategy highlights the federal government’s four pillars for tackling the issue of marine litter: (1) building capacity, (2) incentivizing the global recycling market, (3) promoting research and development, (4) promoting marine litter removal. It also identifies existing U.S. legal authorities and federal programs already underway … the most effective way to combat marine litter is to prevent and reduce land-based sources of waste from entering our oceans … U.S. actions to address sources of marine litter focus on building capacity, incentivizing the global recycling market, promoting research and development, and promoting marine litter removal …” – The web link to the strategy is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News http://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).
