29 April 2026

Hold the Plastic for Ukraine – In partnership with the Institute Lech Wałęsa.

1. Plastic food packaging sheds microplastics that contaminate our food and beverages, which have been linked to cancer, dementia, cardiovascular disease, and reproductive disorders.
2. Plant-based, renewable, and safe biopolymers can replace plastic food packaging. At scale, biopolymers and plastic can reach price parity.
3. Hold the Plastic for Ukraine, in partnership with the Institute Lech Wałęsa, will inspire leading supermarket groups to encourage their suppliers of plastic-packaged food to adopt plant-based biopolymer packaging. This can be accomplished quietly without fear-mongering. We will work with European-based supermarket groups that have stores in the USA, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa.
4. Every year, packaged food and beverage producers spend as much as $700 billion on petroleum-based packaging. Our partnerships with supermarket groups will deliver substantial revenue-sharing to supermarkets. Our donation of 90% of our profits to support Ukraine will deliver unprecedented, long-term private support to this war-torn nation.
5. President Wałęsa will work with the heads of State in two European nations where our prospective supermarket partners are domiciled. The President has been successful with similar programs in cooperation with the founder of Hold the Plastic, LLC.
6. Hold the Plastic for Ukraine has established relationships with the world's leading biopolymer engineers with manufacturing experience. Our goal is to invest in vertically integrated manufacturing to maximize profitability and support Ukraine's funding needs. Our planned production volume and revenue-sharing partnerships with two global supermarket groups could enable us to control a large share of the world's food packaging industry.
7. Hold the Plastic for Ukraine will expense $250,000 over a 90-day period to establish our partnerships with Europe-based, global supermarket groups.
8. The first five packaging categories we will address are:
   • a. Replacing the petro-plastic spouts on billions of baby food pouches sold annually.
   • b. Replacing petro-plastic bags that can be used for frozen foods, bakery, produce, snacks, and dry foods such as rice, legumes, etc.
   • c. Replace plastic bottles for beverages.
   • d. Replacing plastic tubs for dairy products, convenience foods, and a variety of other applications.
   • e. Replacing plastic caps on glass bottles in all food categories. Research has found that plastic caps on glass bottles shed much more microplastics than plastic caps on plastic bottles.

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