Packing it Up — How we end our dependence on Plastic for Food Packaging
We’ve been relying on Plastics for +150 years for various functions, including packaging and preserving our precious foodstuffs. In the meantime, its clogged our waterways and polluted our oceans, as well as become a bane of the food industry who has to find a way to recycle or degrade it so it doesn’t do any more harm.
At FTW, we studied the various forms of Plastics and propose solutions to replace single-use materials with reusable or biodegradeable options that will lead to a more prosperous and pollution-free world.
There is no ‘post-pandemic’ world for Food & Ag
Lots of pundits and media personalities have been asking ‘after Covid, what will the world look like’, like there’s a magical point in time when Covid, or for that matter, any crisis will be over.
I’m going to try and be as optimistic about this as I can be, but there’s really no good way to say it: we are going to be in crisis mode for a very long period of time. And the systems we rely upon will have to adjust to meet our every day needs in the ‘always in crisis’ world.
Atoms are harder to move than Bits
It’s been my common refrain for about two decades now: Atoms are harder to move than Bits.
I came to this conclusion when working on developing software for the Palm handhelds and smartphone platforms back in the early 2000s. We’d be constantly waiting on hardware to get us new prototypes and upgrade some of the core features our software relied upon. In all, it would take us 1 & 1/2 years to 2 years to get a hardware device designed and manufactured for distribution, and that was on the SHORT side of timeframes for the hardware biz.
Now it’s become one of my frequent phrases when discussing another big area, biomanufacturing for food products.
