Spudware: Biodegradable Cutlery!
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Well, until Hershey's can come up with choco-ware, our family is going with Spudware for all our disposable cutlery needs!
More and more people are realizing that a large part of the legacy we're leaving to our children, their children, and beyond is our WASTE!
Spudware is great! Only slightly more expensive than petroleum based plastic cutlery it's made from 80% vegetable starch and 20% soy or other vegetable oils. It's also as heat-resistant as plastic and every bit as strong.
Spudware can be washed and re-used and is also heat-resistant. Only drawback I've found is it does get rather sticky feeling if you leave it soaking in dishwater overnight. The price is not too bad either - a set of 50 knives, forks, and spoons can be ordered for $21 from TreeCylce.com.
Spudware is replacing petroleum based plastic forks, knives and spoons across the land at a very fast rate now.
"We've completely gotten rid of plastics and only use Spudware," said Daniel Kaupie, a Sodexho USA manager who oversees the dining halls at California State University Monterey Bay.
Excellent Packaging & Supply, the creator and manufacturer of Spudware, is a small distributor, based in Richmond, California that is providing a vital link between the manufacturers of compostable and biodegradable utensils and food packaging, many of them scattered overseas, and a growing number of corporate and institutional customers--including the Gap (NYSE:GPS), Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), and the University of California, Berkeley--that are all demanding greater sustainability in their food service operations.
Revenue at the company stands at about $6 million but is growing at some 60 percent a year, driven almost entirely by green products, says founder Steve Levine.
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Honestly my problem with Spudware is that they can't be used beyond a fairly low degree. So for really hot food they're not that great. I like Taterware. Its the same concept, but their cutlery is good up to 375 degrees. Just a thought. I found Taterware at http://www.green-tooth.com
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The state of California has passed a law, assembly bill number 2417, stating that the words biodegradeable, oxo-biodegradable, degradable, and every possible synonym for those words, in effect, belong to the corn-based plastics (PLA) industry. No biodegradable plastic made out of naphtha, an otherwise useless industrial byproduct, may be labeled biodegradable, nor any synonym thereof, may, given current technlogy, be called biodegradable, even if they do, in fact, biodegrade in one day longer than 120 days. This is true even if the biodegradable plastic alternatives are far more likely to biodegrade in a landfill that the corn based plastic alternative. The net effect of this is to increase the demand for corn based plastics. The result of making non-food items out of corn has driven a price spike in the world grain supply that threatens hundreds of millions of impoverished third world citizens with starvation. A further effect of this is to deny the citizens of California the benefits of new technology that makes inexpensive, recyclable, disposable plastic products-garbage bags, shopping bags, plastic cutlery, straws, styrofoam cups and containers, deli containers, soda bottles, etc. etc. The corn based plastics cannot be recycled under in any existing system in place in California, whereas the naphtha based biodegradable plastic alternatives can. In fact, the recycling lobby is trying to ban corn based plastic bottles, because it gets confused with PET, and wrecks their recycled PET plastic batches.Who is behind this? I can't prove it, but I strongly believe that Cargill Inc. and Dow Inc. have been working behind the scenes to create this spike in corn prices, with no concern whatsoever for the lives of hundreds of millions of people who struggle to find food every day. Cargill has acquired the 50 percent interest in Cargill Dow LLC previously 100% owned by Dow Chemical Co. and has renamed the company NatureWorks LLC. That's right, that friendly neighbor Dow that brought you napalm and Agent Orange. Cargill is a huge company that has a great interest in making things besides food out of corn-no matter how many millions of children in the third world starve to death as a result. Campaign contribution laws in this country are so lax that I don't think they even had to break the law to get away with this appalling tactic. Our plastic products biodegrade in the ground in 9 months to 5 years, but we cannot label them biodegradable in the State of California. The ASTM standard that California law refers to is a standard that requires high temperatures and frequent mixing-none of which happens in landfills. IMHO the California standard is in fact likely to mislead the public into believing that their corn based plastic products will degrade under circumstances that do not describe an ordinary landfill. Tim Dunn, http://biogreenproducts.biz