http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/07/world-centric-compostable-ware-for-a-greener-4th-of-july/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/07/world-centric-compostable-ware-for-a-greener-4th-of-july/comment-page-1/#comment-9700 George Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:08:16 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2009/07/world-centric-compostable-ware-for-a-greener-4th-of-july/#comment-9700 I am surprised that you are promoting the compostable disposable industry! The greenwashing is unbelievable. A plastic cup that degrades into a bunch of minute pieces of plastic which then spread around the environment as litter or as compost bought from a municipal program is not a good thing. Well, that is if the so-called compostable even manages to degrade, as promised. Did you think to ask under what environmental conidtions and timeframe these things supposedly compost? And whose data did you look at? The manufacturer's? Also, since very few curbside yard waste programs actually accept these so-called compostables (mostly due to the fact that the receiving facility cannot compost them), guess what, they are just contaminants in the compostable program, where they increase residual, increase costs, reduce quality, and get screened out. What happens to screenings? They are garbage. Or they just go into straight into my garbage and yours. At least that reduces the cost of all the extra handling and cleaning of the compost, but it sure as heck does not indicate a sustainable startup industry. I am surprised that you are promoting the compostable disposable industry! The greenwashing is unbelievable. A plastic cup that degrades into a bunch of minute pieces of plastic which then spread around the environment as litter or as compost bought from a municipal program is not a good thing.
Well, that is if the so-called compostable even manages to degrade, as promised. Did you think to ask under what environmental conidtions and timeframe these things supposedly compost? And whose data did you look at? The manufacturer’s?
Also, since very few curbside yard waste programs actually accept these so-called compostables (mostly due to the fact that the receiving facility cannot compost them), guess what, they are just contaminants in the compostable program, where they increase residual, increase costs, reduce quality, and get screened out. What happens to screenings? They are garbage. Or they just go into straight into my garbage and yours. At least that reduces the cost of all the extra handling and cleaning of the compost, but it sure as heck does not indicate a sustainable startup industry.

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