According to a February 16, 2021 Netherlands Wageningen University and Research news release “… WUR will be coordinating two European Union research projects … The multi-million euro projects are part of Horizon 2020, the largest EU research programme. The mEATquality project (6 million euros) will research the links between animal welfare and meat quality. MINAGRIS (7 million euros) will look at the presence and hazards of microplastics in agricultural soils … WUR will be coordinating researchers and stakeholders all over Europe … ‘In the MINAGRIS project we will be working in 12 European countries to see which microplastics are found in various agricultural systems, and in what quantities,’ says project coordinator Violette Geissen, Professor of Soil Physics and Land Management. ‘We will then look at the consequences this has on soil ecosystems, and whether there are alternatives to the use of plastics in agriculture’ …” – 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/2021/02/18/microplastics-presence-and-hazards-in-agricultural-soils-to-be-studied/ #MicroPlastics #PlasticWaste
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).
