On January 6, 2022, the National Academies Ocean Studies Board advised that its Consensus Study Report, titled “Reckoning with the U.S. Role in Global Ocean Plastic Waste” https://www.nap.edu/catalog/26132/reckoning-with-the-us-role-in-global-ocean-plastic-waste is available to order and to read free online: “… An estimated 8 million metric tons (MMT) of plastic waste enters the world's ocean each year - the equivalent of dumping a garbage truck of plastic waste into the ocean every minute … This report responds to a request in the bipartisan Save Our Seas 2.0 Act for a scientific synthesis of the role of the United States both in contributing to and responding to global ocean plastic waste … [The report] calls for a national strategy by the end of 2022 to reduce the nation's contribution to global ocean plastic waste … [and] recommends a nationally-coordinated and expanded monitoring system to track plastic pollution in order to understand the scales and sources of U.S. plastic waste, set reduction and management priorities, and measure progress …” #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #Recycling #MicroPlastics @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).
