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Company creates edible spoons, eliminating mountains of plastic waste per year

Alternative World News NetworkMar 29, 2016, 6:24:08 PM
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In countries around the world, disposable cutlery poses a huge problem.  Plastic knives and forks find their ways into landfills and even large spinning patches in the oceans, called gyres.

The damage that plastic, causes to the environment is horrendous and plastic cutlery, made from polystyrene, contributes heavily to it.  In the last decade, annual reports of plastic washing up on the shores of India, alone, totaled 300 tons.  It disrupts marine life and leeches chemicals as it degrades (over a long, long period of time).

This is why entrepreneur, Narayana Peesapaty, formed Bakey's, a company dedicated to producing an alternative to plastic cutlery.  The edible cutlery uses various flours, with no additives or preservatives, baked into the shape of a spoon and is extremely cheap to produce.  There's need to find a recycling bin and it fills you up!

"Our Edible Cutlery is meant to be eaten after use. If you do not want to eat, simply throw it away. Insects and stray animals will eat them up or they will degrade naturally in less than three days.

These are made of flours. The flours are kneaded with plain water – no additional chemicals and not even preservatives. They are 100% natural and made under strict hygienic conditions. We have tried making them with various flours and closed on Jowar (sorghum)." - Bakey's

The flours used to create the spoons require 60x less water than rice and the final products have an 18 month shelf life.  Not only are they sustainable and degradable, they can be deliciously made from a variety of ingredients, including a "pulp mix of carrot, beetroot, spinach and other spices."

Image Credit and Kickstarter