According to a January 16, 2022 Financial Times story https://www.ft.com/content/122e7584-c837-44bc-9965-9fd37d7c03ca “… Prices for the most common type of recycled plastic have doubled in a year to hit fresh records as companies vie for limited supplies, threatening ambitious targets set out by drinks and consumer goods groups … The cost of recycled PET last week overtook that for the virgin equivalent, as demand for the post-consumer product outweighed the impact of surging fossil fuel prices on the cost of newly-made plastic … Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Keurig Dr Pepper and Danone are all targeting at least 25 per cent or more post-consumer recycled content in their packaging by 2025 … Several European countries are looking to introduce deposit return schemes for used bottles … the UK are also introducing extended producer responsibility, which forces companies to fund recycling services handling their packaging waste …” #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #Recycling
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).
