According to a December 8, 2020 ScienceDaily news release “… Nano-plastics are suspected of being released into the environment directly by commercial products and by the breakdown of larger pieces of plastic litter … researchers from the University of Surrey detail a new one-step polymerization method to label nano-polystyrene … to create nano-particles in a wide range of sizes for use in simulated lab environments … The team has used their new method to produce and investigate the behaviour of nano-plastics at low concentrations in a variety of scenarios — including in bivalve mollusc … [The method] allows researchers to replicate scenarios in which commercially produced nano-particles have customarily gone unnoticed …” – The web link to the … is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News at https://pfpw.news/2020/12/10/nanoplastics-analytical-method/ #NanoPlastics
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).
