The UK Institute of Civil Engineers (ICE) is seeking by February 1, 2021 abstracts of papers to be published in an upcoming “Microplastics” themed issue of its Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science – “… no standardized analysis methods have been established … the ecotoxicological effects of MPs, or acting as carriers of contaminants, have not been well described …” – Subjects of interest are: “… Innovative methods for characterization and quantification … Occurrence and characterization … Environmental behavior … interaction with other pollutants … Ecotoxicological evaluation …[and] Removal Technologies …” - 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/2020/11/11/microplastics-journal-seeks-abstracts/ #MicroPlastics #SingleUsePlastic #PlasticWaste
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).
