An October 25, 2022 Bacardi news release https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221025005086/en/Bacardi-Cuts-Plastic-in-Packaging advises that the company is “…removing plastic pourers from its bottles in the U.S., Canada, Puerto Rico, Spain and Portugal … The plastic Non-Refillable Fitment (NRF) is commonplace throughout the spirits industry and is currently found in the neck of a number of the company’s iconic drink brands … The removal has already begun, and by early next year, all 1.75l bottles of BACARDÍ rum … in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico will no longer contain the plastic pourer … In Spain and Portugal, the plastic pourer will be removed from all brands in the Bacardi portfolio over the next six months … A major milestone will be reached in 2023, when the company will remove all single-use plastic from its gift packs and point-of-sale materials …” #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic @BACARDI
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).
