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With areca leaves and rice bran, Bangladesh replaces single-use plastic tableware (news.mongabay.com)

submitted 5 months ago by wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net to c/environment@beehaw.org

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With Bangladesh’s growing economy and city dwellers’ purchasing capacity, the tendency to gather for parties and serve food has also increased in the country.

With concerns for environmental protections, many of them are choosing biodegradable tableware instead of single-use plastic.

A few local entrepreneurs are now producing tableware like plates and straws from biodegradable and locally available materials like areca leaves for plates and rice bran and jute for straws.

However, entrepreneurs are struggling with production costs and are looking forward to the policy support that industries producing environment-friendly products usually receive in Bangladesh.

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[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago

As this scales up, a lot of would-be mulch will need to be used. It will be necessary to compost the plates and such after use in order to return the nutrients to the soil. Otherwise, this won't be sustainable. Not a problem unique to this, of course.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I guess it's more important to curb single use plastics there cause they can't ship it off to the third world like in the u.s.

[–] Branwen_Cielocanto@piefed.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

Although the people in Bangladesh are more directly affected by it, I would think the west probably uses more single use plastic, so it's probably even more important to curb it here(although a significant part of it does not end up in the wilderness near us, it still winds up in the ocean in the end).