Animal digestible food packaging to combat food waste
The Animal Digestible Food Packaging (ADFP) Initiative is a not-for-profit with a double agenda: to reduce food waste and combat the plastic packaging problem.
Turning food waste into animal feed is one way of tackling the food waste issue. However, as it stands, there has not yet been food packaging technology developed that meets both food safety and quality requirements, and is digestible by animals, suggests the non-profit.
ADFP aims to establish a public-private partnership to change this. And by bringing together stakeholders – such as food retailers, packaging manufacturers, producers, and government agencies – ADFP hopes to ‘advance the conversation’.
“Our vision is that animal digestible food packaging will be developed and widely used, so food waste and accompanying packaging can be diverted from landfills and become a resource as animal feed” – ADFP
Once the public-private partnership is established, ADFP will seek funding and commission research to develop new packaging materials that are animal digestible. “Once such materials are developed, partnership members would promote their widespread adoption throughout the food industry,” notes the initiative.
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