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Environmentally sustainable disposable cutlery |
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Written by Ecotivity
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 Vegware brings to market an innovative and environmentally sustainable range of disposable cutlery and tableware made from potato starch, sugar cane residue and corn-derived bioplastic.
Currently, huge volumes of paper, plastic and styrofoam cutlery, tableware and food packaging are used and disposed of each year. To give an idea of the scale, an estimated 39 billion items of disposable cutlery are used in the US each year and 2 billion items of disposable cutlery were used in the UK in 1990.
The new range of alternatives based on safe, annually renewable raw materials, which achieve rapid biodegradation are now available. Vegware has the dual goal of aiding the food service industry to reduce the use of non-renewable resources, and enabling a shift in the way waste is managed.
A significant proportion of the waste we generate is suitable for commercial composting, though the economics of sorting waste-streams means that it is disposed of as landfill instead. A switch to compostable foodware and packaging would remove the economic barrier to composting, as food waste, packaging, and tableware could simply be processed together.
Tags: biodegradable compost packaging
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