Scientists have designed the 104 Tray, a set of "green" cutlery made from sugar cane and bamboo, an improvement that doesn't sacrifice convenience or functionality as a replacement for plastic cups and other single-use plastic containers. Unlike traditional plastics or biodegradable polymers that can take up to 450 years or require high temperatures to degrade, 104 Tray is a non-toxic, eco-friendly tableware that degrades in just 90 days and is clean enough to hold Put food such as breakfast coffee.

Plastics make life easier, but at the same time, it becomes garbage that cannot be decomposed in the environment. , Now more plastic bowls, plates and cutlery are thrown into the trash, causing pollution to the environment, we need to be environmentally friendly, so we need to use more sustainable cutlery, such as decomposable cutlery 104 Tray.

Decomposable cutlery 104 Tray

Decomposition tableware 104 Tray is an alternative to plastic food containers. The raw material of 104 Tray is one of the food industry wastes: bagasse, also known as sugar cane pulp. By entangling short, thick bagasse fibers together to form a tight network, 104 Tray is made from this material, which is mechanically stable and biodegradable.

104 Tray's new green tableware is not only as strong as plastic to hold liquids but also cleaner than biodegradable products made from recycled materials that cannot be fully deinked, 104 Tray's new tableware sits in soil for 30-45 It began to decompose after 90 days and completely lost its shape after 90 days.

104 Tray Advantages of Decomposable Cutlery

Alkyl ketene dimer (AKD) (an environmentally friendly chemical widely used in the food industry) is added to the decomposable tableware 104 Tray to improve the oil and water resistance of the 104 Tray tableware, thereby ensuring that the product is Robustness in wet environments. With the addition of this ingredient, the new 104 Tray tableware outperformed commercial biodegradable food containers in terms of mechanical strength, grease resistance and non-toxicity.

The 104 Tray cutlery also has another advantage: greatly reducing carbon emissions. The manufacturing process of the new product emits 97% less CO2 than commercially available plastic containers and 65% less than paper products and biodegradable plastics.