A December 1, 2021 National Academies news release summary of a report released that day https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/2021/12/u-s-should-create-national-strategy-by-end-of-2022-to-reduce-its-increasing-contribution-to-global-ocean-plastic-waste-says-new-report advises that “... The United States should create a national strategy by the end of 2022 to reduce its contribution to plastic waste in the ocean ... Plastic waste has devastating impacts on the ocean’s health, marine wildlife, and communities. Without changing current practices … plastics will continue to accumulate in the ocean … today’s recycling processes and infrastructure are grossly insufficient to manage the complexity and quantity of plastic waste produced … The report lays out six intervention stages: Reducing plastic production … Innovating design and materials to develop substitutes … Decreasing waste generation by reducing the use of disposable plastic products intended for short periods of use … Improving waste management … Capturing waste in the environment … [and] Minimizing at-sea disposal …” #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #Recycling @theNASEM
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).
