How Harmful is Plastic Cutlery to the Environment and how can we prevent it?

Everybody has one of those drawers full of plastic utensils that we got when we had food delivered to our home. Some of us also buy plastic utensils only to use them once during a family party or picnic and throw them away. This trend is ridiculous and even fast-food restaurants know it but no one seems to care.

No one needs plastic cutlery delivered to their home or office. If you are ordering food at home, you may already have steel spoons and forks at home and if you are in your office, you can carry reusable cutlery. Yet the plastic utensils are used anyway. This is just an unconscious and wasteful habit.

Plastic cutlery is one of those items that won’t get recycled even when you put it in the recycling as it too contaminated with chemicals. Furthermore, it is too small and lightweight to process. So all those 40 billion plastic utensils manufactured per year are a complete waste. Something has to change. Something has to move us from an unconscious trend to eco-friendly conscious action.

To reduce the rising waste in oceans and landfills, Ecoware has developed eco-friendly disposable cutlery that is totally compostable. These disposable spoons are made out of wood and sawdust which makes them strong, heat, and water-resistant and ecofriendly. The use of these disposable wooden spoons not only helps to reduce a lot of waste, but it is also much healthier than using plastic cutlery. Ecoware does not use any kind of chemical in the manufacturing process of these utensils. Moreover, all the utensils produced are quality tested before delivery to ensure every piece meet the quality standards.