According to an article in the October 23, 2020 issue of Science Magazine “… plastic waste … offers great opportunities if its economic value can be increased substantially through upcycling processes that convert it into more valuable chemical products …” – The authors “… report on an upcycling process that converts polyethylene (often used for packaging and grocery bags) into long-chain alkylaromatics that can be sulfonated to make biodegradable surfactants …” – The web link to the article is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News http://www.pfpw.news at https://pfpw.news/2020/10/23/plastic-waste-upcycling-of-polyethylene/
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).
