{"id":1664,"date":"2011-09-13T16:46:02","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T23:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ensobottles.com\/blog\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2011-09-13T16:46:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T23:46:02","slug":"pec-making-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/?p=1664","title":{"rendered":"PEC Making Moves"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #99cc00;\">Plastics Environmental Council<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We have just returned from Atlanta, Georgia where the first <a title=\"plastics environmental council\" href=\"http:\/\/pec-us.org\/about.htm\" target=\"_blank\">PEC (Plastics Environmental Council<\/a>)\u00a0\u00a0 conference was held.\u00a0 As you recall, <a title=\"enso plastics biodegradable plastic\" href=\"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\" target=\"_blank\">ENSO <\/a>organized the EPC (Environmental Plastics Coalition) to fight the proposed bill AB1454 in the state of California, and many answered the call resulting in a successful veto of the anti-competitive, and anti-truth in labeling bill.\u00a0 From that successful organizational effort, all saw the need to continue the effort of keeping the market friendly and educated on <a title=\"biodegradable products bottles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ensobottles.com\" target=\"_blank\">biodegradable plastic products<\/a> on a national level, so from this initial organization, the PEC was formed.\u00a0 I was truly floored by the amount of \u201ctop in their field\u201d experts who are participating in the PEC.\u00a0 It was held on the campus of <a title=\"georgia tech\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Tech<\/a>. (who is a major participant of research and support of our technology as it applies to the marketplace) and as everyone in attendance introduced themselves, it became quite apparent that we had a second to none force on our side.\u00a0 From landfill research engineers, to polymer scientists, to political and legal professionals, the deck is extremely \u201cstacked\u201d in our favor to a solid future in the marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, no one works for free, and although these individuals are in an attitude of assisting the progress of <a title=\"ENSO plastics\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ENSOplastics\" target=\"_blank\">environmental friendly plastics,<\/a> their activity and research needs funding.\u00a0 Please contact me to get more details on how you can get involved.\u00a0 Some of this year\u2019s activities for the PEC will include; Creating an ASTM standard specification for Anaerobic and Aerobic biodegradation (a pass\/fail specification), work in California with creating a good green packaging law, FTC education, biodegradability certification, massive amounts of pertinent information regarding how your products behave in landfill environments, recycle stream impacts, and more.<\/p>\n<p>As you might already know, <a title=\"biodegradable plastic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ENSObottles\" target=\"_blank\">ENSO<\/a> has already delved deeply into most of these items, now the good news is that we have more individuals assisting in the cause and the numbers are growing!\u00a0 Please let me know if you have any questions about what is going on, and also find out how you can get involved!<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Del Andrus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastics Environmental Council We have just returned from Atlanta, Georgia where the first PEC (Plastics Environmental Council)\u00a0\u00a0 conference was held.\u00a0 As you recall, ENSO organized the EPC (Environmental Plastics Coalition) to fight the proposed bill AB1454 in the state of California, and many answered the call resulting in a successful veto of the anti-competitive, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[736,3,4,741],"tags":[1296,1297,1298,591,28,30,896,12,31,1299,1300,1301,1302,1303,1304,1305,1306,1307,785,1309,786,1310,1311,1312,1313,1314],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","category-latest-blogs","category-latest-news","category-testing-and-data","tag-ab1454","tag-atlanta-georgia","tag-biodegradable-technology","tag-earth-friendly-plastic-alternatives","tag-enso-additive","tag-enso-biodegradable-bottles","tag-enso-bottle","tag-enso-bottles","tag-enso-brand","tag-enso-distributores","tag-environmental-movements","tag-environmental-plastics-coalition","tag-envrionmental-groups-based-out-of-georgia","tag-georgia-tech","tag-georgia-tech-football","tag-how-to-get-involved-in-the-plastics-industry","tag-industry-experts-on-plastics","tag-initial-organizations","tag-pec","tag-plastic-products","tag-plastics-environmental-council","tag-recent-environmental-plastics-coalition-jobs","tag-what-does-the-environmental-plastics-coalition-do","tag-what-is-the-pec","tag-where-can-i-find-enso","tag-who-is-in-the-environmental-plastics-coalition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ensoplastics.com\/theblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}