The abstract of an October 1, 2021 “Science of the Total Environment” article by researchers with UK University of Exeter and Ecuador Galápagos Science Center https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721027753 reports that “… Ecuador’s Galapagos Islands and their unique biodiversity are a global conservation priority. We explored the presence, composition and environmental drivers of plastic contamination across the marine ecosystem at an island scale, investigated uptake in marine invertebrates and designed a systematic priority scoring analysis to identify the most vulnerable vertebrate species … Microplastics were present in all seven marine invertebrate species examined … confirming uptake of microplastics in the Galapagos marine food web … identified 27 marine vertebrates in need of urgent, targeted monitoring and mitigation including pinnipeds, seabirds, turtles and sharks …” @UniofExeter @GSCGalapagos #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #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).
