On October 21, 2020 Bacardi unveiled “… plans to put … [a] sustainable spirits bottle on shelf by 2023. The new 100% biodegradable bottle … [will be made from] a biopolymer which derives from the natural oils of plant seeds such as palm, canola and soy. While a regular plastic bottle takes over 400 years to decompose, the new spirits bottle made from Nodax™ PHA will biodegrade in a wide range of environments, including compost, soil, freshwater and sea water, and after 18 months disappear without leaving behind harmful microplastics … [The new bottle will] replace single-use plastic across the entire Bacardi supply chain and the company’s 200 brands and labels …” – 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/2020/10/26/bacardi-unveils-biodegradable-spirits-bottle/
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).
