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Our Utensils

We only work with innovative manufacturers who make top quality compostable dinnerware to provide our guests with utensils that actually return nutrients to the soil in less than three months.

Conscious Living

Our every action impacts the interconnected web of life on Earth. Daily decisions regarding what we do, what we consume, where we buy, how we choose to live, and the values that we hold and promote, affect this world and the communities we live in.

About World Centric Compostables

Our mission is to actually use sustainable methods and products to make a better world for our children. It’s time to change the way we nourish ourselves and our planet…Its time to bring the food home.

The watchwords of sustainability - reduce, reuse, recycle - direct us towards our ultimate goal of a zero waste economy. In the meantime, in an economy that does produce waste, our disposable food-service products are designed to transform waste into healthy, new soil through composting.

Defining “Compostable”

All living creatures consume resources and generate waste. In a well-balanced ecosystem, one creature’s waste is another creature’s resource. Within the Earth’s natural cycles, waste that is compostable is a healthy, renewable nutrient to new life. Petroleum-based waste is not. In seeking to make purchases that respect the Earth, consumers must understand the different meanings of the terms “compostable” and “biodegradable.”

Compostable vs. Biodegradable

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Compostable:

Meets D6400 composting standards set by the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM): Under a managed composting program, the product must 1) break down to carbon dioxide, water, inorganic compounds, and biomass at a rate similar to paper, 2) disintegrate into small pieces within 90 days, so that the original product is not visually distinguishable in the compost, and 3) leave no toxic residue.

Biodegradable:

Capable of disintegration by biological means; typically, composed of organic matter that can be readily decomposed by a wide variety of microorganisms; technically, composed of almost any material since with enough time, some microorganisms can decompose almost anything; for example, aluminum cans will biodegrade in the ocean in about 175 years, and hard plastic bottle caps will biodegrade in the ocean in about 400 years.