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Tableware for Day in the Garden biodegradable Host Tucker's Station will provide items made from paper, sugar cane, and corn--or more specifically bagasse By Barbara Armitage When the Adair County Garden Club invited Chris Korrow, organic gardener and film maker to be the featured speaker at A Day in the Garden on Saturday September 13th I knew that I wanted Tuckers Station Farms to be involved. The question was how could we support this event, help keep it green and still have fun? The answer came from unexpected sources. Sugar cane, corn and recycled paper. Tuckers Station Farms will supply all the tableware for the covered dish dinner at the event and everything, plates, cups, napkins and utensils are 100% bio-degradable. Paper by far makes up the largest percentage of solid waste taking up 40% of the space in our land fills. Last year over half the paper consumed in the US was recovered for recycling over 51 million tons of paper was recycled. We chose Chinet brand paper plates because they are made from 100% pre consumer milk carton stock and are bio-degradable in home composting. For the dessert plates and bowls we went a sweeter way choosing to use products made from a sugar cane waste product called bagasse. Each year American throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam cups, enough every year to circle the earth 436 times. They are not recyclable and never biodegrade. Disposable glassware was a bit harder to find than plates. Thanks to the internet I was able to order glassware that looks and feels just like plastic they are completely biodegradable and are made from CORN! Americans consume an average of 2,200 paper napkins/towels per person per year. If every household in the United States replaced just one package of virgin fiber napkins with 100 percent recycled ones, we could save 1 million trees.We chose napkins made from 100% recycled materials that have not been bleached. Used napkins will be composted and recycled into garden soil. Plastic eating utensils are made from polystyrene are not recyclable and are not biodegradable. Each year in the U.S. we use roughly 40 billion plastic utensils. These items have a very short useful life - a plastic fork provides value for about as long as it takes to eat lunch - then become an environmental problem for the next 100-1,000 years. Utensils made from corn by-products are our choice. Forks, spoons and knives that compost in about 95 days make better sense. When you plan your next covered dish dinner, family reunion or just every day dinners chose to reuse first and if you must use disposable products chose responsibly. Everyone is invited to join the Adair County Garden Club for a Day in the Garden with Chris Korrow, Saturday September 13, 2008, 10:00am to 4:00pmCT at Tuckers Station Farms, 1535 Bull Run Road, Columbia. Call (270) 250-2979 for more information. This story was posted on 2008-09-10 17:51:52
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