In an April 21, 2023 news release, EPA published its draft “National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution” upon which public comments will be sought during a 45 day public comment following publication in the Federal Register – The goal of the strategy is to “… eliminate the release of plastic and other waste from land-based sources into the environment by 2040 … eliminate the release of plastic and other waste from land-based sources into the environment by 2040a new White House Interagency Policy Committee (IPC) on Plastic Pollution and a Circular Economy … will coordinate federal efforts on plastic pollution … EPA identified three key objectives for the strategy: … Reduce pollution during plastic production; … Improve post-use materials management; [and] … Prevent trash and micro/nanoplastics from entering waterways and remove escaped trash from the environment. The draft [strategy] together with EPA’s “National Recycling Strategy” identifies how the Agency can work collaboratively with U.S. organizations to prevent plastic pollution and reduce, reuse, recycle, and capture plastic and other waste from land-based sources …” #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).
