How Plates Made From Sugarcane Could Help India's Plastic Problem | World Wide Waste

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Millions of tons of sugarcane waste, also known as bagasse, is produced every year. And India grows the second-most sugarcane of any country in the world. That's why Yash Pakka's brand Chuk is creating tableware out of the waste that is usually burned for fuel.

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[pvajit]

Bagasse is the fibre. It contains lignin a natural gum that can bind these fibre together under heat. These can be converted to extruded firewood. That is done with rice husk in Bangladesh. Plates made of processed bagasse could replace 50% of plastic and styrofoam.

[sensibleenergy]

Im a proud Investor of pakka, i mainly invested because of ved krishna idea of saving the environment ❤

[SoCoPubLib]

Thank you Yash Pakka, Claudia Barona and other innovators around the world! Hopefully we'll see the end of plastic sooner rather than later.

[thatsawesome]

The irony is when plastic introduced, it were promoted as environmental friendly alternative for paper packaging, the narrative is we need to reduce cutting down the tree, and plastic is recyclable

[rashb]

So beautiful to see all these biodegradable solutions and options emerging.

[mayank]

It is certainly soothing that people are making efforts to provide a healing touch to our mother nature. But, I feel govt. should provide subsidies to such start-ups and also promote them. Govt. can also make such utensils compulsory in govt set ups like railways. Also, our premier institutions should work to improve the technology to reduce the cost and make it less machine intensive so that the tech can be set up in low investment

[Vinay-bnwz]

Government is banning plastic so it should also promote this type of products to replace the plastic

[austriasalzburg]

Great company and owner! They should export this product to Europe as well. The world needs it.

[vishalmittal]

Thank you Yash Pakka, So beautiful to see all these biodegradable solutions and options emerging, you are true ecological warrior.

[PatHand-ogyd]

Here in Canada, I recently bought a milkshake from McDonald’s — with a paper straw just like the ones that were ubiquitous decades ago. Unfortunately, it only worked properly for a few sips, then was wet and collapsed. It was very hard to drink after that. So these ecopreneurs have to not only make a product that seems like a reasonable replacement for plastic, but also performs properly. But I am happy to see Chuk and all the other innovative companies doing this good work!

[yamandisibu]

Amazing. Am interested in sugarcane products and want to learn more about the chemical properties of it.

[kaushmaisuria]

Well done. Great to see. All the best for the future - all our children and grandchildrens future depends on innovation like this

[reinerdxb]

💡 Indian Govt. could impose an additional charge while purchasing products that are either packed or sold in plastic materials.
[ same principle can be applied for glass and other ♻️ material ]

Every customer could be rewarded in some way, let's say per 50-100gms on returning the clean & empty plastic item.

This way, people would be educated & mindful how they dispose off their plastics (& other ♻️ material) waste - simultaneously keeping the country "cleaner and greener"!

[TransgirlsEnjoyer]

I am willing to pay even 12 bucks or 15 bucks for this plate but it is business owners who use plastic bec they think handling is easy for such stuff

[sharathahuja]

It is reported that Bagasse can be used as a medium for growing mushrooms.

[stripura]

These people are the actual climate warriors

[earthyinstincts]

It needs such visionaries in our nation n in the world around to make an action based fight against plastic pollution that is the cause of eventually most of the kinds of pollution

[tonyburzio]

I've used them, high quality, far better than paper.

[pratyashaact]

Beautiful steps towards the way of development 🎉🙏

[muhammadawisabdshahadan]

Jika itu bermanfaat maka kerajaan perlu menyokong Dan turut bekerjasama menyalurkan keperluan kerana untuk negara sendiri bukan negara lain👍🥳🎉