Compostable Packaging Resources & Guides
Welcome to the Pure Compostables resource library — a working set of in-depth guides written for the people who actually procure, evaluate, and switch to compostable packaging. You’ll find detailed certification breakdowns (BPI, TUV, EN 13432, ASTM D6400 and beyond), step-by-step playbooks for transitioning a business away from conventional plastics, and product selection guides covering bag sizes, materials, and use cases. Every article is written from the perspective of a manufacturer with thirteen years of operating experience — not a marketing team. Use the categories below to navigate by topic, or browse the most recent guides directly. If your question isn’t answered here, our team is happy to help — start with our wholesale page or send us a note via the contact page.
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How to Build a Sustainability Page for Your Restaurant Website
A sustainability page on a restaurant website is more than marketing — it’s a working document that affects investor due diligence, customer trust, employee recruiting, supplier negotiations, and increasingly compliance reporting. Restaurants without sustainability content on their websites are losing competitive ground to those that do, particularly with diners under 40 and corporate catering customers.…
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How to Compost When You Travel for Work
Frequent business travelers — sales reps, consultants, executives, traveling nurses, project managers — face a specific composting challenge: kitchen scraps accumulate while they’re home, compost piles need attention they can’t give, and partner spouses or roommates may not pick up the practice. The household composting routine that works for a homebody doesn’t work for someone…
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Compost Liner Bags Buying Guide: ASTM D6400 Sizes for Commercial Kitchens and Composting Programs in 2026
B2B buyer’s guide to compostable compost liner bags — ASTM D6400 certified sizes for commercial kitchens, restaurant compost programs, municipal collection, and the procurement framework for picking the right bag for your composting workflow.
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Pantry Moths and Compost: How to Keep Your Pile (and Pantry) Pest-Free
Pantry moths (Indianmeal moths, mostly) and compost piles can become connected in unfortunate ways. A pile of moth-infested grain dumped into backyard compost may seed the larvae across your pile and back into the kitchen via the compost-bin route. The interaction goes the other way too — open-air compost piles in summer can attract egg-laying…
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What Does Bio-Based Mean on Packaging?
Bio-based on a packaging label means the material was derived from biological raw materials — plants, agricultural waste, or microbial sources — rather than petroleum. It doesn’t mean the packaging is compostable, biodegradable, recyclable, or environmentally better than conventional packaging. The two concepts are independent. A bio-based plastic can behave exactly like petroleum plastic in…
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Backyard Composting Without Neighbors Complaining
Neighbor complaints about backyard composting are the single most common reason home composters quit. The complaints — smell, flies, rats, visual eyesore, fence-line proximity — are real and usually traceable to specific operational mistakes. With the right setup, a backyard compost pile produces no odor detectable beyond 5 feet from the bin, attracts no measurable…
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Furniture Refinishing With Compostable Sandpaper and Bio-Stains
Refinishing a wooden dresser, dining table, or chair generates a surprising amount of waste — used sandpaper sheets, paper towel cleanup, leftover stain, masking tape, cardboard drop cloths. A typical full chair refinish produces 1-2 pounds of waste; a dining table can produce 4-8 pounds. Most of that waste goes to landfill because conventional sandpaper…
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How to Use Compostable Items in Pop-Up Events
Pop-up events — food festivals, farmers market booths, brand activations, outdoor brewery launches, food truck rallies — generate roughly 1.5-3 pounds of waste per attendee in a 4-6 hour window. A 2,000-person event produces 3,000-6,000 pounds of waste in an afternoon. Unlike a stadium with permanent infrastructure, pop-up events have no built-in waste system and…
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Compostable Christmas Tree Decorations: Cards, Cookies, and Cones
Most Christmas tree ornaments are designed to last decades, which is good. But the supplementary decorations — paper chains, gift tags, cookie ornaments, pinecone garlands, dried citrus slices — are designed for a single season and then thrown away. A household that fully decorates a 7-foot tree typically generates 2-4 pounds of decoration waste each…
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How to Set Up a Composting Program at a Stadium
Setting up a new composting program at a stadium that’s never had one is a 12-18 month project, not a quarter-long initiative. The work breaks into pre-launch assessment, stakeholder alignment, pilot phase design, phased rollout, training program development, performance measurement, and year-2 expansion. Skipping or compressing any of these phases is the single most common…
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The First Compostable Coffee Filter in Europe
The question of which company made the first compostable coffee filter in Europe doesn’t have a clean answer. The paper coffee filter itself was invented in Dresden in 1908 by Melitta Bentz, and those original paper filters were technically compostable from day one — pulp paper has always broken down in compost. The more interesting…
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8 Compostable Packaging Myths Foodservice Buyers Believe
Compostable packaging is the fastest-changing category in foodservice procurement, which means it’s also the category where outdated assumptions stick longest. The buyers most exposed to bad information are procurement leads at mid-size restaurant chains, school nutrition directors, and corporate cafeteria operators — the people making 6-figure annual switches with too little time to verify supplier…