Colin Purrington<p>Beware of "compostable" products that aren't actually compostable at home. In digging through my compost pile this week I unearthed 3 forks (from takeout food I purchased several years ago) that I think were made by the California-based company, Karat Earth (aka Lollicup). On Amazon and elsewhere the sentence the company uses in marketing is "simply toss the fork into a compost bin when finished." And the forks themselves have the text, "compostable" embossed on them. On company's own website, however, is a logo from the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) indicating, in a small font, that forks are "commercially compostable only," which means they only begin to break down at ~190 °F (88 °C). Somebody needs to file a class-action lawsuit to force greater transparency on marketing materials. <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/compost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compost</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/composting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>composting</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/fork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fork</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/takeout" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>takeout</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/psa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>psa</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/plastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plastic</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/restaurants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>restaurants</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/greenwashing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenwashing</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/polymer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>polymer</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/corn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corn</span></a> <a href="https://flipping.rocks/tags/bioplastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bioplastic</span></a></p>