According to a November 16, 2020 “Sponsored Content” article in The Hill online political newspaper, the Consumer Brands Association advised that “… To fix recycling, we need to understand the scope of the problem — and we can’t do that without consistent, reliable data … There are nearly 10,000 programs, each with their own recycling methods and rules … you can’t manage what you can’t measure and today, we can’t reliably measure our recycling rate … It is time for Congress to pass legislation that will standardize recycling reporting …” – The web link to the article is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News at https://pfpw.news/2020/11/25/recycling-standardized-reporting-mechanism-sought/ #Recycling #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic
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).
