Why wait? Start setting your dinner table with cozy tidings of old-fashioned joy weeks before the holidays.
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February 10, 2008
February 10, 2008
'Sweet' Sustainable Tableware
I've posted a few times about green tableware, and below are 2 more entries that I came across. In total, it appears environmentally tableware can be made from: potato starch, sugarcane fiber, bamboo, and dried palm leaves.
Green Tableware Strategy, Products, and Production
Allison Zisko pens an article in this week's HFN about the absence of the green tableware movement. She says that new manufacturing or distribution techniques are NOT in store. Consumers and the industry as whole can largely look forward to: less packaging and nature-inspired themes. Not too inspiring compared to what other industries are doing. But, let's not kill the messenger.
The need to see more environmentally friendly tableware in the marketplace increases as we see an increasing array of products in other industries. Today's Wall St. Journal says that giving 'green' gifts will be popular this year. Two sites that offer such products: