GreenScreen Certification shows packaging is free from PFAS

By Douglas Brown | New Hope Network | January 13, 2024

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"Most of the conversation around environmentally friendly packaging hinges on sustainability. Packaging clogs landfills, forms islands of plastic in the oceans and floods landscapes with trash. Innovations that mitigate waste through recycling, composting, reuse or rapid material breakdown are celebrated.

But packaging’s pitfalls touch on more than garbage; they also impact human and animal health. The American Academy of Pediatrics concluded in 2018 that chemicals in plastic interfere with children’s hormones, growth and development. Four years later, the Endocrine Society said that plastics contain and leach hazardous chemicals, including endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) that threaten human health.

Concern has pivoted from professional societies to the halls of Congress. Three Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives introduced in October the No Toxics in Food Packaging Act of 2023, which would prohibit a variety of substances commonly used in packaging."