On October 15, 2020 the US Department of Energy awarded “… $27 million in funding for 12 projects that will support the development of advanced plastics recycling technologies and new plastics that are recyclable-by-design … these projects will also help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks …” – The projects will address “Highly Recyclable or Biodegradable Plastics,” “Novel Methods for Deconstructing and Upcycling Existing Plastics,” and “BOTTLE Consortium Collaborations to Tackle Challenges in Plastic Waste” – The web link to the news release 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).
