Did you know?
• Americans throw out plastic folks, knives and spoons each year enough to circile the equator
about 300 times.
• The average time that people uses a utensil before they throw it away is about 3 minutes
- source: Stephanie Bernstien, founder to-go wear
A lot of people are excited about corn and other "plant- based" packaging without realizing that
some of them are only compostable in commercial sites (of which there are very few) and that
many end up in landfills. The wide spread misnomer that these utensils are “easily
biodegradable” is also fueling the “use and throw” culture, that creates excessive waste. Worse,
it is driving food prices UP, since it uses edible plants like corn, soy, rice, potato starch etc.
I am keen on starting a pilot project -on campus at first - to combat this “disposable psyche” by
promoting reusable utensils. We also want to see whether we can make it "economically viable"
to make our dining halls and eateries adopt "non-edible" plant based / home compostable
containers.
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