The Association of International Seafood Professionals (ASIP) is in talks with Shiva Balivada, a father of nanotechnology applications in India and co-founder of Polar Bear International, to tackle the issue of plastic packaging.
From the time of harvest, through the supply chain, right down to the time it’s delivered to the end user, the seafood industry uses many thousand tonnes of plastic.
Roy Palmer, executive director, AISP, said that on the eve of World Ocean’s Day it is time to challenge such uses and to find solutions to this packaging, which often finds its way into the oceans.
“It is estimated 3.5 million pieces of new plastic enter the world’s oceans daily. Global currents accumulate them into huge circulating ocean gyres causing countless damage to marine life along the way,” he said.
Shiva Balivada is well known through as a technology evangelist. He turned entrepreneur in 2007 specialising in nanotechnology, telecom and IT. He has many successes including India’s first online system, first CASE tool for software developers and first WiFi phone.
He has long recognised how poor habits can be changed through innovation and technology and polluting activities can be turned into positive solutions for the oceans thereby improving sanitation, water and food opportunities.
AISP now aims to work with Polar Bear International and its partner charity, Aquaculture without Frontiers, to create specific projects to act as a catalyst for change on the issue right through the global seafood industry.
