According to a November 16, 2020 Resource Recycling story “… The U.S. recycling and composting rate took a significant dive in 2018, falling from 35% to 32% …” – According to “… The U.S. EPA recently published national waste and recycling data for the 2018 calendar year. The agency found the U.S. generated 292 million short tons of waste, of which 69 million tons were recycled and 25 million tons were composted. Together, those materials recovery efforts notched a 32.1% recycling and composting rate, down substantially from 35.2% in 2017. Without including composting, the recycling rate was 23.6%, down from 24.9% … ‘Although more tons were recycled in 2018 than ever before, the recycling rate decreased to the lowest levels since 2006’ …” – The web links to the story and EPA report are included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News http://www.pfpw.news at https://pfpw.news/2020/11/16/recycling-us-waste-generation-exceeds-recycling-progress/ #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #Recycling
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).
