sustainable sugar cane

most people don't give much thought to the humble paper plate holding their picnic/potluck feast but remember this biodegradable dinnerware the next time you drive past yet another subdivision. the cool thing is that these plates and cups are made from sugar cane fiber so not only are a few more trees saved from the chopping block, but it also prevents the bagasse, which is a byproduct of the sugar refining process, from being burned and generating more air pollution.

the irony for the islands, of course, being that all the sugar cane land that used to dot the landscape  and which has been systematically cleared away for development seems to have found a renewed life in the 21st century.

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[Nini]

How cool is this????