Wondering which plastic containers to avoid and which are safe to eat from? How to learn about chemicals in food packaging? Or how to make sure you are buying BPA-free foods? Do you assume all plastic food packaging is recyclable? These questions — and so much more — are all answered in our recently published FoodPrint of Food Packaging Report . But sometimes you just want an answer, not to read a report, and we get that. Which is why we recently held a Twitter chat with Dr. Martin Mulvihill, researcher and advisor at the Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry and general partner with Safer Made , a mission-driven venture capital fund that invests in companies that remove or reduce the use of harmful chemicals in products and manufacturing processes. As a consultant on FoodPrint’s packaging report, Mulvihill was the perfect person to break down the nitty-gritty of food packaging and answer all our questions about “forever chemicals,” recycling and more. Mulvihill s...
