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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Eco-Friendly Excitement: Compostable Plastic Cup?

During our last road trip, we discovered a fun little lunch place. The place serves some organic and some locally sourced foods and everything is compostable, including the food (without the oils), bowls, utensils, and plastic cups. I have not done much research on compostable plastic. I do know that something is added to the plastic to make it biodegradable. I saved the plastic cup to add to my compost bin and see just how it takes to decompose. I will keep you up to date!

>> Have you every tried to compost plastic? Were you successful or not?

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3 comments:

  1. JenMarch 13, 2013 at 10:30 PM

    I have found that a lot of the biodegradable plastic is compostable only in a facility. The temps of the home composter don't get hot enough. But I have had success with composting the SunChips bags in our backyard composter!

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  2. Katherines CornerMarch 17, 2013 at 9:28 PM

    great post. Thank you for sharing your lovely blog at the Thursday Favorite Things blog hop xo

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  3. CelloMomMarch 20, 2013 at 8:20 AM

    Hi Katie, I was also excited when our local café started serving their cold drinks in biodegradable cups. I thought this might be a nice experiment for CelloPlayer, so we put one cup in our worm bin, and one on the compost heap outside where it could catch some sun. After a whole summer (3 months) we couldn't see a change in either cup. So that was disappointing.

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