Neither. They're roughly equal in pros and cons. While convenient addictions, they both gobble up natural resources and cause significant pollution. So those famous enviromental materials you have heard about, might not be as sustainble as you frist thought.
Reporting from the material jungle.
Searching for different material to use for our reusable food ware I have read many articles about which material that is most sustainable. That question seems to be much harder to answer then I thought. We had decided to use cradle-to-cradle design. Quoting from one if my earlier blogs.
”We have discovered the new way of product and package design, called cradle-to-cradle design (instead of traditional cradle-to-grave design). Cradle to cradle is about remaking the way we make things and it means literally designing waste right out of the lifecycle of the package. Mimicking nature, a package is designed to be either a technical nutrient that can be reused, or truly recycled in a tight, closed-loop process with zero loss in material performance, or a biological nutrient that can safely break down into the soil. One idea is that we create reusable food ware out of Corn, potato or soy bean plastic which is biodegradable.”
Know I have heard that corn plastic is not that green as we first thought, because of both the genetic modification and because of pesticides they use when growing them. Problems, problems, and how hard can it be to get a hold of some good old sustainable material? Okay, so what about Cellulose (plant fiber)? I have heard that in a recent test between bio plastics made from cellulose, corn, and starch (potatoes), that the cellulose products had fewer greenhouse gas emissions in their production, is that true? I search the web for answers and yes it is true, but the same problem still exist, it’s all genetically modified. So can we choose the right material without being hypocrites? Is their such a thing as the perfect material?
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