On November 4, 2020, the governor of New Jersey signed into law “… S864, which prohibits the use of single-use plastic and paper bags in all stores and food service businesses statewide … Starting May 2022, both plastic and paper single-use bags, as well as disposable food containers and cups made out of polystyrene foam, will be banned … Moving forward, the focus throughout the state will be on using reusable bags …” – Some plastic bags are exempt “… for an additional two years …” – The web link to the news release is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News www.pfpw.news at https://lnkd.in/dC5ATYz #SingleUsePlastic #PlasticWaste #NewJersey
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).
