One food court outlet to introduce biodegradable disposables
By Song Keng, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 11 December 2008 2139 hrs

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SINGAPORE: Come this weekend, ordering your food to dine in or takeaway may leave less of a carbon footprint than in the past.

Import and distribution company CornWare is introducing biodegradable disposable wares.

Made from corn, the prices of these products are comparable to their plastic and styrofoam counterparts.

One outlet of the food court chain Banquet will be using the biodegradable disposable wares from this weekend.

Olive Green Marketing is working with Banquet's other food courts to introduce them at more outlets.

Banquet says the charges for takeaways remain unchanged at 20 cents.

"The biodegradable disposables are carbon neutral. Carbon neutrality is quite a simple concept in the sense that the amount of carbon dioxide that it releases upon incineration in Singapore is at most 32 per cent, as compared to the amount of carbon dioxide released by styrofoam and plastics which is almost 100 per cent," said the executive director of Olive Green Marketing, Aloysius Cheong.

- CNA/yt