Product Guides
Choosing the right compostable product is rarely as simple as “pick the eco one.” Bag thickness has to match waste type. Container size has to fit your bin or your service line. Material choice (PLA, PBAT, kraft paper, bagasse, sugarcane fibre) determines whether your packaging will hold hot food, survive freezer temperatures, or survive a 40-mile delivery without splitting. The guides in this category walk through these trade-offs application by application — sized for foodservice operators, retailers, distributors and procurement teams who need to spec the right product the first time. Every guide draws on what we manufacture and what our customers report back from the field.
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Wedding Reception Cup and Plate Strategy
A wedding reception puts more pressure on disposable tableware than almost any other event. The plates and cups have to hold up to professional photography, scrutinize at close range by hundreds of guests, complement venue aesthetics, and survive a 4-6 hour event with multiple courses. The compostable options have matured enough to handle the demand,…
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9 Best Compostable Plates for Outdoor Events
Outdoor events stress disposable plates in ways indoor events don’t. Wind blows lightweight plates off tables. Sun softens flimsy materials. Hot food and barbecue grease test grease resistance. Stacked storage in coolers demands rigid nesting. The compostable plate category has matured to handle outdoor demands across nine distinct products that each fit specific use cases.…
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The Edible Compostable Cup That Tastes Like a Cookie
Edible coffee cups have moved from novelty trial to genuine commercial product over the past decade. Air New Zealand serves them on flights. Bulgarian company Cupffee ships them to coffee shops across Europe. KFC ran a UK pilot in 2015. The cup is a wafer-style cookie that holds hot or cold liquid for an hour,…
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A Buyer’s Guide to Compostable Containers for Take-Out Burritos
Burrito takeout has its own packaging shape — long, hot, often dripping salsa, traveling 20-40 minutes from kitchen to customer through a delivery driver’s bag. The standard answer for decades has been aluminum foil, which is recyclable in some streams but not compostable. The compostable alternatives have improved enough that several work for the burrito…
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A Buyer’s Guide to Compostable Doilies
Doilies are one of the smallest, most overlooked items in foodservice paper goods. A bakery uses 50-200 a day. A catering operation runs through hundreds at a wedding. A coffee shop drops one under every pastry. Conventional doilies are usually bleached white paper with no thought about end-of-life. Compostable alternatives — unbleached, certified, paper-only —…
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A Buyer’s Guide to Compostable Espresso Pods
Single-serve coffee pods are one of the worst single-use packaging categories by volume — somewhere around 56 billion pods produced globally each year, with roughly 95% non-compostable in 2022. Compostable alternatives have improved enough that several work in standard Nespresso and Keurig machines without modification, taste reasonably comparable to conventional pods, and break down in…
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The Reusable Produce Bag Setup That Travels Through TSA
Most reusable produce bag setups are built for grocery shopping. The same bags are surprisingly useful for travel — packing snacks, separating contents, organizing carry-ons — if you pick the right materials and know which fabrics confuse airport scanners. Here’s the working four-or-five-bag kit that handles produce shopping at home, breezes through TSA when traveling,…
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5 Best Compostable Pizza Boxes That Don’t Leak Grease
Pizza boxes are one of the harder problems in compostable foodservice. The grease has to stay in. The cardboard has to compost. The cost has to compete with conventional. For years the industry’s answer was PFAS — the same chemicals now being banned across multiple US states. The post-PFAS pizza box landscape is still settling,…
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A Buyer’s Guide to Compostable Plates for Birthday Parties
A birthday party tableware order has a different shape than a wedding, a corporate event, or an everyday takeout meal. The food mix is sugary, the portions are small but messy, the kids are enthusiastic about spillage, and the host has to balance themed aesthetics against the reality of frosting bleed. This is the working…
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What’s the Best Compost Bin Size for a Family of Four?
A family of four generates between 1.5 and 2.5 cubic feet of compostable waste per week. Most off-the-shelf compost bins are sized for a couple, not a household, which is why so many family piles overflow by month four. The right answer depends on yard size and climate, but it almost always points at more…
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The Tea Bag Mountain That Inspired a Composting Revolution
For decades, British households dropped used tea bags into compost bins assuming the bag broke down with the leaves. Then a gardener noticed mesh skeletons surviving in his finished compost, and a quiet consumer revolt forced the UK’s biggest tea brands to rethink what they were sealing into millions of bags every day.
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Retirement Parties: Compostable Cake Plate and Catering
Retirement parties have a specific tableware footprint — small cake plates, a punch service, hors d’oeuvres, maybe a sit-down dinner — that doesn’t quite match wedding-event guides or office-lunch buying patterns. Here’s a working playbook for picking compostable plates, forks, cups, and napkins for the retirement-party shape, with quantity math and the mistakes that consistently…