According to the abstract of a May 24, 2023 Plus One article by researchers with the University of California San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography “… we tested the biodegradability in marine waters of textiles made of polylactic acid, a diffused industrially compostable plastic … Results show that polylactic acid … does not degrade in the marine environment for over 428 days … natural and regenerated cellulose fibers undergo complete biodegradation within approximately 35 days … Referring to compostable plastics as biodegradable plastics is misleading …” #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #MicroPlastics @Scripps_Ocean
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).
