According to a December 16, 2020 Food Industry Executive article “… The food and beverage industry has a plastic problem … While one solution is to make it easier for consumers to recycle … reusable packaging could be a more promising solution … Even when plastic packaging is fully recyclable, consumers are more likely to throw it away. Only 14% of plastic packaging makes it into recycling collections … consumers have made it clear that they prefer sustainable packaging … Reusable packaging, however, has a few downsides … Materials must be more durable … thus they’re more expensive …[plus] high cost associated with reverse logistics — or the process of collecting, cleaning, and reusing the materials … “ – 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/2020/12/17/plastic-waste-reusable-food-packaging-discussed/ #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #FoodPackaging
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).
