Springfield Agri and, a compostable packaging company, TIPA, are calling on leaders to make capturing and composting food waste a priority to help restore soils and capture harmful carbon from the atmosphere.
Springfield Agri and TIPA will collaborate at COP26 to show the role packaging choices in the food industry have on maintaining and improving soil quality.
Compostable packaging helps to recover food waste, whereas conventional plastic harms food waste collections by contaminating composting processes and leaving microplastics in soil.
Daphna Nissenbaum, Co-Founder and CEO of TIPA commented: “Compostable packaging can help consumers and governments alike meet this challenge by carrying more food waste into the composting process without contaminating the soil as plastics do.”
Microplastics interact with soil fauna with earthworms having been shown to make their burrows differently when microplastics are present, affecting their fitness and – in consequence – soil health.
The composting process returns nutrients – including carbon – back to soil. If the carbon stored in soil were increased by 0.4% every year, the rising concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere could be halted.
Exhibiting to world leaders this week, the partnership will present compostable packaging as a ‘critical tool with a dual purpose’: prolonging the life of food as it is transported to retailers and stored by consumers and later carrying any waste back to composting.
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