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And wooden single-use cutlery is pretty common already today.
by danielbln 8y ago
And wooden single-use cutlery is pretty common already today.
- ineedasername 8y agoReally? I've never seen it in the US, except in the form of wooden coffee stirrers.
- vonmoltke 8y agoI have seen bamboo plates and cutlery, though it isn't common.
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- happymellon 8y agoYes. My local cafe has metal spoons for my yoghurt if I'm eating in, but wooden if I'm taking out. It's not unusual in the UK.
- bpyne 8y agoIt's not common. But a few cafes around me are wooden utensil only. Metal and paper straws I've also seen an uptick in.
- forkLding 8y agoChinese or most East Asian food restaurants have wooden single-use chopsticks
- saluki 8y agoYou see them some in the US, there are also some that are that are made from corn. They feel/flex like plastic but are biodegradable.
- driverdan 8y agoThe ones that look and feel like plastic are essentially plastic. The conditions it takes to get them to break down don't happen in a landfill.
- organsnyder 8y agoYou don't want things to break down in a landfill. They do decompose in industrial composting facilities, though, which are becoming more accessible (we just signed up for a service that costs $5/week for a decent-sized bin).
- philipkglass 8y agoWood doesn't break down under landfill conditions either, at least not on human time scales. But wooden objects do biodegrade within human time scales if just left in a meadow. The same is true of polylactic acid objects. Neither wooden nor PLA objects break down in a home composting system like orange peels do, but both biodegrade much faster than e.g. polystyrene.
- rak00n 8y agoThey usually come with this warning that they are only biodegradable on specialized facility.