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Biodegradable Products Most biodegradable plates and compostable disposables are made from bagasse, bamboo, recycled paper, cornstarch, and even fallen leaves. ECO Gardener’s range of biodegradable plates is made from untreated, plantation timber that’s 100% sustainable and earth-friendly. Since these products are not chemically treated, they are suitable for kids and young children. Why Switch to Biodegradable Plates and Compostable Disposables? Most of the garbage that ends up in landfills and oceans is made up of plastic food packaging. Using biodegradable products may reduce the trash that ends up in landfills and the world’s oceans.   Unfortunately, food and plastic packaging manufacturers are finding more and more reasons for using plastic food packaging. Plastic is widely used because it’s a cheap and accessible material. Disposable containers are convenient to use but their negative impact on the environment cannot be ignored. It is also worth noting that single-use plastic...

Plastic Pollution Plastic pollution is the accumulation of plastic objects and particles (e.g. plastic bottles, bags and microbeads) in the Earth's environment that adversely affects wildlife, wildlife habitat, and humans. Plastics that act as pollutants are categorized into micro-, mesa-, or macro debris, based on size. Plastics are inexpensive and durable, and as a result levels of plastic production by humans are high. However, the chemical structure of most plastics renders them resistant to many natural processes of degradation and as a result, they are slow to degrade. Together, these two factors have led to a high prominence of plastic pollution in the environment.   A team of researchers in the United States and Australia, an environmental engineer at the University of Georgia, analyzed plastic waste levels in the world's oceans. They found that China and Indonesia are the top sources of plastic bottles, bags and other rubbish clogging up global sea lanes. Togethe...

Impact of Disposable Dinnerware set on Health? Nowadays in every walk of life, we use disposable plastic cups, utensils. On one hand, if disposable plastic plates and food containers are useful, on the other hand, it threatens our health as all these goods contain hazardous chemicals. On one hand where these disposable food containers made our life easy, simultaneously it poses great risk on our health. A report from National Toxicology Program of the U.S department of the health and human service noted that two chemicals, formaldehyde and styrene, are commonly found in these containers are known or suspected carcinogens (National Toxicology Service, U.S. Department of Health Human Services, 2014).   With all the civilized eating utensil options out there, should you consider opting for eco-friendly, biodegradable plates and utensils? As those traditional form of disposable plates is made using material which will not easily decompose. Biodegradable utensils and plates com...

Biodegradable Products With the continuous debate encompassing nature and an Earth-wide temperature boost, t there’s never been a better time for into a naturally made products. Biodegradable products can help you do exactly that.  Because biodegradable products are composed of natural ingredients that break down easily into the earth, it requires far less energy to recycle them providing faster and more efficient production. In the production stage, it requires half as much energy to produce biodegradable products than those made of regular plastics. The same amount of energy will produce twice as many biodegradable bags, containers or packages as it would non-degradable products.     Less danger of allergens or poisons in your items Ordinarily, the more biodegradable a plastic, the more uncertain they are to contain any allergens. Obviously, allergens can be terrible PR for any organization. Also, obviously, biodegradable plastics are made with natural materia...

Does Plastic Contribute to Global Warming? As though we required further motivations to be worried about the disturbing facts of plastic contamination, it has now been found that this non-biodegradable substance can add to an unnatural climate change, too. An examination led by the University of Hawaii has exhibited that when plastic is presented to sunlight, it can make an increase to deliver the hurtful ozone-depleting substances (GHG) methane and ethylene. The Dangers of Using Non-Biodegradable Items Things produced using Styrofoam and plastic,  breeze up in landfills by the ton  consistently.  These items take hundreds of years to degrade, and when they do, they can build up toxic residue. Food administration undertakings were once famous for creating quite a bit of that non-biodegradable waste. Lately, numerous in the food administration industry has changed to biodegradable items produced using vegetable matter like corn and sugarcane. Since they are made with natur...