Great Pacific Garbage Patch
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is “a giant soup, a gyre. It’s a whirlpool of tiny fragments of plastic in the ocean at various depths”.
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).
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is “a giant soup, a gyre. It’s a whirlpool of tiny fragments of plastic in the ocean at various depths”.
The Initiative submitted a nomination to present “Why New Food Packaging Materials are Necessary for the Quick Service Restaurant Industry”.
A new report by the United Nations provides much needed information on global efforts to curb single use plastics.
A Boston ban on plastic carry out bags takes effect in December.
Food waste reduction measures are included in the 2018 Farm Bill.
The Danish government will ban use of lightweight plastic carrier bags and require a fee for use of thicker, more durable bags.
Bans on plastic packaging are “are often shortsighted and not based on facts”
A single service styrofoam ban goes into effect on January 1, 2019 in New York City.