Uses, here it is biodegradable packaging instead feeds kill fish – Globalist.it

A simple idea, which does not pollute but mostly does not kill our little friends that live in the sea. It comes from the US a totally biodegradable packaging for beer which, if thrown into water, it can be eaten by fish and turtles that the material is not harmful to their bodies. That’s what she’s thought about a small company that produces beer, Florida, in the United States, however, one of the countries that produces much of the plastic.

The bio packaging. The packaging 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.

the numbers: the more plastic oceans fish. According to estimates in the oceans end 8 million 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 plastics that 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.