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Monday, September 10, 2012

As exciting as hosting a house party can be, inviting family and friends over for fabulous food, drinks and endless fun, when everyone has left for the night (or, the next morning!), there’s usually quite a mess to clean up. I’m lucky enough that for the most part, I have hosted many times without much major consequence. None of my pets have been drawn on, none of my furniture broken. But as someone who works hard at living as eco-friendly a life as I can, the bin of plastic drink cups always makes me wince.

Sure, they can be rinsed and recycled, but I still wished there was something better. Apart from investing in 100 drinking glasses, I wasn’t always sure what that ‘something better’ might be. But now I am! And I’ve been happily post-party-wince-free since I started using NatureWorks Green Stripe corn cups.

Instead of relying on the petroleum needed to create most plastic cold beverage cups, these plastic cups made from corn prove there’s a smarter way to do things!

  • Petroleum-based cups aren’t compostable. NatureWorks corn cups are!
  • Petroleum is not a renewable resource – once it’s gone, it’s gone. Corn, on the other hand? Totally renewable!
  • The petroleum used in crafting plastic cups could have come from any number of locations, while the corn used in creating NatureWorks corn plastic cups is US-grown only. This is especially important for those who wish to support American jobs and shop as locally as possible, as often as possible.

You can have your party, and go green, too! And corn plastic cups are just one small step you can make. But you know what happens when a lot of people make a lot of small, important steps, right? Good things. Good things happen. 


by: Whole Earth Packaging

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