According to a December 8, 2020 American Chemistry Council news release “ … America’s plastic makers will continue working in a bipartisan, practical and collaborative fashion to advance solutions for a circular and sustainable economy for plastics. We look forward to … working with the incoming Biden administration to address the challenge of plastic waste and collaborate on constructive, real-world solutions that can be implemented to help ensure plastic can be recycled and reused, and to eliminate plastic waste in the environment … Misguided policies that aim to eliminate all plastics overlook the myriad of benefits provided by the material … We’re making investments for a more circular future, scaling up advanced recycling technologies … and supporting bipartisan legislation … America’s plastic makers have set goals to … [achieve] 100% of U.S. plastics packaging reused, recovered or recycled by 2040 …” – The web link to the news release is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News at https://pfpw.news/2020/12/10/plastic-waste-american-chemistry-council-addresses-challenges/ #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #Recycling #ACC
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).
