Compostable Champagne Flutes
Compostable
Champagne Flutes
Welcome
to our world of plastic free disposable drinks serving ware.
The new range of biodegradable champagne flutes will excite you!
Serve your drinks in eco-style with our sturdy, compostable
Champagne Flutes. They are perfect for indoor or outdoor events to serve
martinis, cocktails, hor d'oeuvres, and desserts!
Polylactic Acid (PLA)
What exactly is it?
SelfEco offers cutlery, cups, bowls, plates, and
many other partyware supplies made from a biopolymer called PLA
(polylactic acid). PLA is made from starchy renewable plants like corn, switch
grass, and sugar beets grown in the U.S. Starch from these materials
are processed into a biopolymer that looks, acts, and performs like its
traditional, harmful cousin: petroleum-based plastics.
Why do we use it?
PLA performs much like traditional plastics but with the crucial benefit of being 100% compostable in commercial compost facilities. We
use PLA because it is versatile, compostable, and best of all, not
petroleum-based. All of our products and even our compostable cutlery is
made from PLA. In cutlery, the formulation of PLA is rigid and durable —
perfect for high-strength needs and of course, commercial composting! The
use of PLA provides an improved environmental footprint:
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Reduces greenhouse gases
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Requires significantly fewer fossil fuels
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Offers more post-consumer and commercial disposal options
What's cool about it?
Most plastics are derived from petroleum or oil. Oil is
our most valuable resource in many ways. It's also a resource that comes with a
lot of negative environmental and social impacts. Our PLA products give you the
option of products made from renewable resources, like plants instead of
oil. Plants can be grown again and again, unlike oil which is
nonrenewable. PLA plastics have the added benefit of being compostable when you
are finished using them. Composting is an opportunity to divert waste that
would otherwise be landfilled — and by composting, you create valuable
nutrients in the soil so that plants can grow again.
Where do we get it?
We source
all of our food-safe PLA Ingeo™ Bioplastic from Natureworks, LLC.
NatureWorks is the first to offer a family of commercially available
biopolymers derived from 100 percent annually renewable resources with cost and
performance that competes with petroleum-based packaging materials and fibers.
They apply their unique technology to the processing of natural plant sugars to
create the proprietary polylactide polymer marketed under the Ingeo™ brand
name.
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