Green Diva’s Guide to Fresh Style - Great Green Products: Wheatware
With the summer coming on strong, I thought of Wheatware(TM) products, which were one of my ‘editor’s’ picks for the 2007 holiday issue of Relevant Times. I was so impressed, I gave literally EVERYONE I knew one or a combination of these great bio-compostable, non-toxic, non-plastic products.
Wheatware is on a mission to save virgin forests and reduce our dependence on oil through the use of surplus wheat to create many items traditionally made from wood or plastic, such as: disposable flatware, guitar picks, golf tees, chop sticks, hangers among other items. AND, they are bio-compostable and are are designed to biodegrade in 45 to 90 days in microbially-active soil or a commercial compost facility. To bring things even more full-circle, Wheatware bio-compostable products are indeed recyclable and they are developing their own process to reclaim and create second generation products that originated from Wheatware.
The disposable flatware and golf tees particularly appealed to me at this time of year.
Does Wheatware have a negative effect on the wheat-based food supply?
According to their website, the answer to that question is ‘No. On average there is a 50 billion bushel wheat surplus annually (150 million metric tons) . . . There is a plentiful supply of wheat, an abundant, renewable resource. By future recycling of Wheatware™, each bushel of wheat in effect is reclaimed and reused over and over, thus one bushel can create a lifetime of products.’
Photo used with permission from Relevant Times
From a business perspective, if you look at dollar for dollar, there’s a lot of savings to be had by going eco-friendly as far as expenses and energy consumption, … But most people don’t look at business from that point of view - they only look at the bottom line and the upfront costs, but there’s a long term benefit to being eco-friendly.
Meegan,
very nicely written!
As of June 2008, we now call the recyclable aspect… biocyclableTM. Meaning, the recollection of plant-bio-based earth-safe products,re-manufactured into further earth-safe products, then at the end of their useful life, placed into fertile soil biocomposting into fertilizer in 90 days for potential use for further crops, offering a closed-loop cycle for sustainability. BiocyclableTM.
Warren J. Kirsch, Co-founder/CEO of Wheatware
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I saw show on tv last night that showed wheatware products, and i was intrigued. I attempted to go to the Wheatware website and it tells me it has exceeded it’s cpu quota and other attempts had the same message. Is the company still in business?