Green Options » greenware http://greenoptions.com/tag/greenware Posts tagged 'greenware' Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:31:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en GreenWare Cups http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/07/21/greenware-cups/ http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/07/21/greenware-cups/#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:31:46 +0000 John Simonetta http://ecopreneurist.com/2008/07/21/greenware-cups/ GreenWare CupThis is a guest post by John Simonetta, owner of ProformaGreen, an eco-friendly promotional items consultancy. John’s blogs are designed to keep us up to date on the “greening” of his industry.

GreenWare cups resemble clear plastic cups but are made from a resin derived from corn called Natureworks® PLA (polylactic acid) resin. If you are a business, festival, music event, stadium or other venue selling drinks in cups, please consider these as a alternative to petroleum based plastic cups.

These cups are 100% compostable and environmentally sustainable as PLA resin is naturally recycled in the Earth.

Other environmental benefits include:
~ 20% - 50% fewer fossil resources used than with petroleum based resins.
~ No ground water contamination because the cups break down into natural lactic acid and metabolites which are recycled into the ground.

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