On January 19, 2021 NOAA released its Blue Economy Strategic Plan for 2021-2025, which aligns with several key agency initiatives, including the 2020 Federal Strategy for Addressing the Global Challenge of Marine Litter – The plan “… focuses on five sectors that NOAA will advance through agency-wide initiatives: marine transportation, ocean exploration, seafood competitiveness, tourism and recreation, and coastal resilience …” – The plan also aligns with implementing the National Ocean Policy of 2018, the 2018 National Strategic Plan for STEM Education, the 2019 Presidential Memorandum on Mapping the U.S. EEZ and Shoreline & Nearshore of Alaska, the 2020 National Strategy for Mapping, Exploring, & Characterizing the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, the 2020 Executive Order on Promoting Seafood Competitiveness and Economic Growth, and several NOAA conservation, science and technology, and mapping strategies - The web link to the plan is included in the post on the home page of Plastic Food Packaging Waste News at https://pfpw.news/2021/01/20/marine-litter-addressed-in-new-noaa-strategic-plan/ #MarineLitter #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).
