An October 14 , 2022 Minderoo news release https://www.minderoo.org/no-plastic-waste/news/plastic-pollution-could-trigger-colossal-legal-claims-against-petrochemical-industry-amid-compelling-evidence-of-serious-harm-to-human-health/ reports on a study https://cdn.minderoo.org/content/uploads/2022/10/14130457/The-Price-of-Plastic-Pollution.pdf that “… shows that plastic’s range of harmful impacts could trigger potentially colossal liability claims against the petrochemical industry … Also exposed are manufacturers of plastic polymers, whose products ultimately degrade into micro- and nanoplastic particles which persist in the environment for decades, entering the human food chain; and which are rapidly emerging as major public health and environmental threats … The study’s conclusions offer a previously unheard-of chance for policymakers to address the risk and societal costs associated with plastic pollution, and they should be taken as a warning to the plastics sector that ignoring the problem at hand is no longer an option …” #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #MicroPlastics @minderoo
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).
