Disposable Biodegradable Cutlery

• 8 million pieces of plastic pollution find their way into our ocean daily.
• 79% of plastic waste is sent to landfills or the ocean, while only 9% is recycled, and 12% gets incinerated.
• 25 trillion macros & 51 trillion microplastics litter our oceans.
• Of that, 269,000 tonnes float on the surface.
• This is the equivalent of 1345 blue whales & 500 times the number of stars in our galaxy.
• 4 billion plastic microfibers per square kilometer clutter the sea.
• Between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic pieces are dumped into our oceans yearly.
• One garbage truck of plastic is discarded into our oceans every minute.
• Approximately 5,000 items of marine plastic pollution have been found per mile of beach in the UK.
• 165 million tonnes of plastic currently circulates in Earth’s marine environments.
• Only 1% of marine litter floats, everything else sinks to the seafloor.
• Plastic has been found as far as 11km deep, contaminating the most remote places on Earth.
• Plastic in the sea is predicted to increase tenfold by 2020.

Yearly, up to 12.7 million tonnes of plastic enter our oceans. It escapes from landfill sites, floats down our drains, ends up in rivers, and makes its way into our oceans. A lot of plastic waste is invisible to the naked eye, it collects in ocean gyres, where marine life feeds. It’s not only the single-use plastic, such as plastic bottles and straws you use but the microbeads in your cosmetics, the fibers in your clothing, and in your teabags. As only 1% of this plastic floats, everything else sinks to the floor polluting the most remote places on earth.

At the rate we’re still using plastic, the problem is set to increase tenfold. The impact this has on the ecosystem, marine life, and humans are potentially irreversible. It’s time to make the changes, to use disposable biodegradable cutlery.

Disposable Biodegradable Cutlery Sets – Spoon, Knife, Forks – PLA Compostable