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).

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ADFPI News – July 19, 2022 – Following are web links to three of the many news stories that, beginning July 1, we have not had time to properly summarize for you – They address India, Greenwashing and Circular Plastics Economy.

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India - A July 1 Reuters story reports that India has banned some single use plastics https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/01/india/india-bans-single-use-plastic-intl-hnk/index.html

Greenwashing - On July 1, 2022, Reed Smith advised that regulators are stepping up scrutiny on greenwashing https://viewpoints.reedsmith.com/post/102hrgt/regulators-step-up-scrutiny-on-greenwashing#page=1

Circular Plastics Economy – A June 27, 2022 United Nations Environment Programme news release advises that during a UN Ocean Conference, several new governments committed to the UN circular economy program for plastics https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/un-ocean-conference-new-governments-commit-circular-economy-plastics

#PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #Recycling @reedsmithllp @UNEP

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