The abstract of a Journal of Hazardous Materials article to be published August 15, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2022.129011 by researchers with the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Italy Politecnico di Torino, Switzerland École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, and ETH Zurich reports that “… Microplastics detected in potable water sources and tap water have led to concerns about the efficacy of current drinking water treatment processes to remove these contaminants … We … used palladium (Pd)-labeled NPs to investigate the behavior and removal of NPs during conventional drinking water treatment processes including ozonation, sand and activated carbon filtration … NPs particles were most efficiently retained when aged (i.e. biofilm coated) sand was used … the removal of NPs during slow sand filtration dominated the overall NPs removal which is also supported by the laboratory-scale and pilot-scale data. The results from this study can be used to estimate the NPs removal efficiency of typical DWTPs with similar water treatment chains …” #NanoPlastic #MicroPlastic #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #DrinkingWater @Elsevier_Eng @EawagResearch
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).
