According to a March 24, 2023 Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) news release https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2023/3/petrochemicals-to-waste-examining-the-lifecycle-environmental-and-climate-effects-of-plastic the EPW Subcommittee on Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight, will hold a hearing at 10 am on March 30 in 406 Dirksen, titled “Petrochemicals to Waste: Examining the Lifecycle Environmental and Climate Effects of Plastic” – The hearing is “… to examine the lifecycle environmental impacts of petrochemicals …” – Live video of the hearing and witness testimony will be available on the EPW Committee’s website https://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/hearings – A witness list will be available closer to the hearing date – #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).
