According to a study to be published in the April 15, 2021 journal, Science of The Total Environment, by researchers with the Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao, China “… Microplastics, as an emerging pollutant, are widely spread in the oceans. The sampling method is the most basic and important factor affecting the reported microplastic abundance data. Three sampling methods, most commonly used for microplastic collection, including direct filtration … 20 μm sieve pre-concentration followed by 0.45 μm filtration and Manta trawling with a 150 μm mesh size net were studied. The results showed that there were orders of magnitude difference in abundance of microplastic across the three methods … The polymer types of microplastic collected … were similar, but polymer proportions were different … Our results suggested that an appropriate method should be selected upon actual sampling condition and available tools during the research process to improve the credibility of the results …” - 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/2021/01/10/microplastics-analytical-methods-compared/ #Microplastics #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).
