“The Perils of Plastic Food Packaging Waste” is the title of a 7 pm Eastern Thursday, February 4, 2021 Maryland IFT Section virtual presentation by Jack Cooper, a 50 year member and Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) – He is currently serving as Executive Director of the Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative http://www.adfpi.org and Plastic Food Packaging Waste News www.pfpw.news – Attendance is complimentary – The presentation is intended to be a discussion of issues associated with plastic food packaging waste, including: Food Waste; Plastic Waste; Analytical Methods for Micro and Nano Plastic Particles; Effects of Plastic Waste on Wildlife; Human Health Studies; Recycling; Recyclable Claims; Federal Legislation; State Actions; Municipal Actions; Industry Efforts; Individual Company Actions; Non-Government Organization Actions; Activist Legal Actions; Environment, Social and Governance (ESG); International; and Plastic Alternatives – Web links for the meeting are included in the post on the home page of Food Packaging Waste News at https://pfpw.news/2021/01/27/the-perils-of-plastic-food-packaging-waste-maryland-ift-presentation/ #PlasticWaste #FoodPackaging #Recycling #MicroPlastics
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).
