A January 20, 2022 Closed Loop Partners news release https://www.closedlooppartners.com/pepsico-beverages-north-america-invests-35-million-to-help-close-gap-in-recycling-access-through-investment-in-closed-loop-local-recycling-fund/ announced that PBNA has made a “… $35 million investment with Closed Loop Partners that will create the ‘Closed Loop Local Recycling Fund,’ an innovative circular economy initiative to advance new small-scale, modular recycling systems in communities across the U.S. The fund aims to increase recycling in areas with no or limited access to recycling, reducing waste and unlocking a new supply of recycled plastic (rPET), among other valuable materials, to support PepsiCo’s pep+ (PepsiCo Positive) sustainable packaging goals … Closed Loop Partners will use the investment to deploy small-scale modular Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs) in underserved communities that currently lack access to larger municipal MRFs …” #Recycling #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #FoodPackaging @PepsiCo @LoopFund
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).
