In the race to find sustainable utensils that are environmentally friendly, you will rarely find a product as clearly a winner as single-use bamboo cutlery. Bamboo has several strong advantages when it comes to being used in travel cutlery kits. It has the beauty of natural wood, is sturdy and reusable, which it combines with biodegradability and sustainability. Put it all together, and you have the perfect lineup to resolve your need for environmental friendliness with product utility. Bamboo is a great addition for your travel cutlery kit.
Advantages of Bamboo
Bamboo is a natural material. Technically, it’s not a tree but is related to grass, despite growing over 100 feet tall. Bamboo grows in tropical and subtropical areas, including various parts of the U.S. In fact, certain types of bamboo can be grown as far north as the Ohio River Valley. Some types of bamboo grow as much as four feet in a day. It usually tops out at 100 to 150 feet tall in three or four months. With such a quick growth cycle, bamboo is extremely sustainable.
Bamboo has several other advantages as well. It does not transmit heat the same way that metal cutlery can and is about 10% of the weight of metal cutlery, making it the lightweight option for transport considerations. Bamboo has greater tensile strength than steel, meaning your cutlery is less likely to bend or break like a metal fork or spoon would.
While it’s reusable, bamboo cutlery is also recyclable and compostable. It’s resistant to stains and odors, and retains its shape. It also has the natural and beautiful look of wood, but doesn’t splinter and is durable enough to last up to 10 years.
Advantages of Bamboo Cutlery
Bioplastics are marketed as a better alternative to regular plastic, but they pale in comparison to bamboo. Conditions need to be perfect for bioplastics to decompose; bamboo, on the other hand, decomposes naturally so can be composted and recycled.
As a plant, bamboo is environmentally friendly. It provides more oxygen than trees and helps prevent erosion by stabilizing the soil. Bamboo holds more carbon than trees do as well, due to its accelerated growth rate, so it can play a greater role in mitigating climate change than trees.
Because bamboo cutlery is lightweight, it offers logistical benefits to the airline, rail and cruise industry over wooden or metal cutlery. While plastic cutlery is lightweight, it’s flimsy and can be impracticable. As bamboo gains acceptance in the travel cutlery lineup, it will gain cost advantages through economies of scale. Bamboo utensils are a product line whose time has come.
How RMT Global Partners Uses Bamboo Cutlery
desire to be seen as providing a high-end product for customers. It is not enough to just achieve sustainability; when you use bamboo travel cutlery kits, you are achieving sustainability in style.
Bamboo cutlery combines strength, beauty and utility in a sustainable package. It’s lightweight, making it a fantastic replacement for metal cutlery, and its durability makes it the superior option to plastic. Compostable and recyclable, the finished product is seen as an environmentally responsible choice, as much as the fast-growing plant itself is sustainable.
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