From beer edible eco-packaging for fish and turtles – DiariodelWeb.it

MIAMI – A biodegradable packaging which, if thrown into water, it can be eaten by fish and turtles that the material is not harmful to their bodies. And ‘the one who has thought a small company that produces beer, Florida, in the United States, however, one of the countries that produces much of the plastic.

Packaging biodegradable fish

 Packages of beer cans, and not only, are a huge problem for fish and turtles, especially since these animals often we get caught. We are talking of the classic “rings” that are used to hold together the cans. The damage to the ecosystem in general are still quite large. The recycling of materials, in this view, is one of the most reliable solutions to try to solve the pollution problem. Hence the idea of ​​Saltwater Brewery, a small brewery that has decided to create this innovative and biodegradable packaging using production waste of the same beer as barley and wheat. The only looming is represented by production costs which will be clearly higher than those of the plastic rings: one that will have customers, then, will be an ethical choice, choose to pay more to protect the life of animals and protect the environment.

In the most plastic seas fish

 According to estimates in the oceans end 8,000,000 tons of plastic per year, equal to a truck per minute: 15 years from the calculations even predict a doubling of the amount, so that in 2050, at sea, there may be more plastic than fish. The data in the study of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, are from his hair. Today, less than 5% of the plastic is recycled, 40 percent ends up in landfills, and a third directly in natural ecosystems, such as the oceans. In the seas of the world, in fact, floating over 270 thousand tons of plastic, namely 5.25 million billion plastic particles. Materials that end up also in our stomachs: 52% of the marine population, in fact, ingesting plastic. Plastic is one of the worst plagues of our millennium: the aim is to spread ideas such as that received by the beer in Florida, to encourage other companies to follow suit and in a more environmentally sustainable production.