On December 15, 2022, Jack Cooper, Executive Director of the Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative www.adfpi.org presented a fifteen-minute PowerPoint during the concluding session of the three day virtual Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences (IANFS) Science Innovation Showcase https://iafns.org/event/2022-showcase/ - He commented that for the following reasons the food industry should establish a public private partnership for the discovery of new food packaging materials: food packaging is finding its way to land and waterways where it is left to naturally degrade into macro, micro and incidental nano size particles; governments around the world are developing new laws addressing packaging waste; consumers are increasingly applying Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors to the companies from which they purchase consumer products and investors are applying ESG factors in their decision-making process; lawsuits against companies for alleged false marketing claims; recycling difficulties; and constant social and mainstream media attention – #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #MicroPlastics #Recycling @IAFNS_science
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).
