EATware™ - Environment Appropriate Tableware Revolutionizes Food Packaging

EATware™ represents a major development in producing environmentally friendly, high quality, single-use products for the food service packaging industry.

(PRWEB) November 3, 2005 -- EATware™ represents a major development in producing environmentally friendly, high quality, single-use products for the food service packaging industry.

Our patent-pending EATplus™ proprietary additive and technology allows us to produce boxes, bowls, trays and plates made of all natural, abundant, renewable materials that are 100 percent decomposable, biodegradable as well as recyclable. They can even be used as animal fodder and fertilizer.

In addition, the technology used in our manufacturing process minimizes energy consumption and environmental pollution and maximizes production resulting in a product line that is not only more friendly to the environment, but also competitively priced when compared to paper and plastic products.

WHITE POLLUTION
Global consumption of single-use disposable food and drink containers such as lunch boxes, cups and bowls is estimated at 438 billion units per year or 140,000 units per second. Most of these containers are EPS (Expanded Polystyrene) and are totally non- biodegradable and non-recyclable. These non-degradable polymers require more than 200 years to begin even partial degradation in either water or the earth. They can not be incinerated since they emit highly toxic gasses.

The only practical means of disposing these mounds of “White Pollution” is in landfills. If consumption continues at the current levels, eventually many countries will be with no landfill areas. Even nations like the People’s Republic of China, with its huge physical boundaries can not afford to continue its annual consumption of 35 billion containers per year. This is why at least 20 cities in China are not far from enacting a total ban on EPS containers.

BAN ON THE USE OF DISPOSABLE EPS PRODUCTS
China is not alone in its concern with White Pollution. Most governments worldwide realize the significant long term detrimental affect of EPS disposable food packaging products. The have taken initiatives to encourage the re-design of products and packaging to reduce and control plastic waste. Many have also banned the use of disposable EPS products entirely.

As government and public concern about this issue continues to increase, so will the pressure on the food packaging industry to develop more environmentally friendly measures to recycle plastic waste and to seek replacements or substitute products which are “Environmentally-friendly” and “Fully Decomposable”.

In the search for a solution to this problem, a new category of degradable polymers have been produced. However, these containers are expensive to manufacture, and are still not fully decomposable. Another solution proposed by some has been to return to the use of paper-based products. However, using paper has always had significant drawbacks including: depleting our forests, producing paper causes more pollution than producing polymers and paper based food containers can not hold water or greasy food. Obviously neither of these alternatives provides an economical long-term solution to White Pollution. This is why we have created EATware™ products which we are confident provide the most environmentally acceptable and economically feasible solution.

INDUSTRY STANDARDS
Along with the emergence of the EPS substitutes in the market, various standards or guidelines have been developed by government organizations to assess the performance of substitutes.

China
In November 1999, two national standards were released and officially implemented starting January 1, 2000.

1.) “General Specification for Single-use Degradable Food Container and Drinking Set” (GB/T 18006.1-1999)

2.) “Test Method for Determining the Degradability of Single-use Degradable Food Container and Drinking Set” (GB/T 18006.2-1999)

Hong Kong
The Environmental Protection Department (EPD) launched the Testing Guideline or the Degradability and Food Safety of Containers and Bags on December 29, 2000. The guideline addresses food safety, degradability and physical performance of single-use food containers aiming to replace disposable EPS products.

VISIT OUR WEBSITE
www.EATware.com

CONTACT US
Glory Team Industrial Ltd.
4510 Regent Street Suite 3      
Madison, WI 53705 USA      
Ph: 608 836 8553                  

Glory Team Industrial Ltd.
23/F Westin Centre
26 Hung To Road
Kwun Tong, Kowloon, HK
Ph: 852 2295 1818

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