According to an EPA November 2020 report “… EPA estimates that in 2018, almost 103 million tons of wasted food were generated in the industrial, residential, commercial, and institutional sectors … [excluding] the industrial sector; EPA estimates that just over 63 million tons of wasted food were generated in the commercial, institutional, and residential sectors …” - The web link to the report is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News at https://pfpw.news/2020/11/24/food-waste-epa-2018-estimate-published/ #FoodWaste #PlasticWaste #SincleUsePlastic #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).
