On July 31, 2023, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) submitted comments https://www.americanchemistry.com/chemistry-in-america/news-trends/press-release/2023/epa-s-plastic-strategy-should-focus-on-collaboration-innovation-circularity-opportunities to EPA on its Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution – The comments “… outlined opportunities where greater collaboration could turn the Draft National Strategy into a more comprehensive approach to eliminate plastic pollution and called out sections of the draft where unintended consequences could mean significant negative impacts … ACC is concerned that many parts of the draft strategy are inconsistent with the direction and intention of Congress. In addition, there are aspects of the Draft … that would stall the transition to a circular economy and increase carbon emissions … Our biggest concerns lie with the agency’s call for material substitution without considering the impacts of alternatives … As the [EPA Draft] … is linked to the EPA’s National Recycling Strategy … there should be an emphasis put on fulfilling the objectives laid out in that strategy …” #PlasticWaste #SingleUsePlastic #FoodPackaging #Recycling @AmChemistry
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).
