According to the abstract of a December 24, 2022 Nature Scientific Data article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01883-5 by researchers with Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and S & N Labs: “… identifying the polymer composition is key for resolving the material origin, geographic source, and ecosystem life cycle of ocean plastics … Raman spectroscopy is an increasingly preferred identification method for its accuracy and reduced likelihood of misinterpretation … we provide an open-access reference library of high-quality, broad-spectrum Raman spectra of major polymer categories germane to marine environments ... We hope this reference library can help this rapidly expanding scientific community and facilitate progress in the global plastic pollution crisis …” @MBARI_News #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #MicroPlastics
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).
