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Have you ever been to a landfill?
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Did you know plastics amounted to at least 20% of all landfill garbage?
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Did you know most plastic products take hundreds of years to degrade?
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Did you know sea animals like turtle often mistake plastic as food, and die from swallowing it?
- We want to start a movement: To replace disposable plasticware, like the disposable plastic spoon & Styrofoam cup, with a biodegradable alternative.
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A Landfill: Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net
What can you do to help?
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Plastic product recycling - Good.
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Reduce plastic product usage - Better.
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Replace plastic product with something else that can biodegrade into mere water and carbon dioxide - BEST
Who We Are
Gomaize is a start-up founded by a group of environmentally-conscious young entrepreneurs in 2012. Based in Los Angeles, we work with global suppliers and manufacturer to produce corn-based household product. Our first line of product is the eco-friendly partyware that will biodegrade and decompose easily, and leave minimal burden on the environment.
What We Need & What You Get
Change is hard, but we understand we have to start somewhere.
We want to make a change, And we could use your help.
By contributing to our movement, we will send out sets of biodegradable partyware (forks, spoons, knives, plates, bowls, and cups) to you, your family, your friends, or any organization of your choice. Replace the traditional plasticware with biodegradable one we sent you. Use it at your party, at home, at your office or at any event, anytime.
Use that to make an impact. Use that to start a change.
The Product
What we will ship: Disposable Partyware Set Made of Corn-Starch
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Spoons
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Forks
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Knives
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Plates
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Cups
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Bowls
Main Characteristics: Biodegradable, Compostable, Eco-friendly.
● Made from renewable resources (Non-GMO dent corn) [Not petroleum!]
● Requires less energy to produce [than petroleum based plastic!]
● Generates fewer greenhouse gases [than petroleum based plastic!]
● Non-toxic when it breaks down (turn into carbon dioxide and water)
● Biodegrade and compost in as little as 6 months*
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Main ingredient in our biodegradable partyware is the high-quality US-made PLA resins by NatureWorks (a division of Cargill). These PLA pallets are derived from field corns, the same feedstock grown for many other industrial uses (including livestock feed and corn syrup). Though other plants, including sugarcanes and potatoes, can also be used to produce PLA, corn has been chosen because of it's advantage over price and abundancy in the states. For those who are concern that using corn as manufacturing material will have adverse impact on the food prices or supply, the PLA production industry uses less than 0.0005% of the annual global corn crop today, based on a 2008 data provided by NatureWorks. Besides, we don't eat the field corn!
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Products carry numerous US and Internationally recognized certifications:
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The Impact
Everyone could make a difference, Even a small one. And anyone could easily start making a difference now.
We don't expect to change people's habit overnight. Or having an unrealistic dream of eliminating plastic completely and live in a plastic-FREE world by next week.
But for every set of degradable bio-plastic partyware we send out, it helps promote awareness among the public on availability of a BETTER alternative to plastic. And that, put us a step closer to a better world.
Risks & Challenges
Plastic is so ubiquitous and has been essentials in our daily lives for years. And it's been commercialized so economically that you will find any other alternatives (includes bioplastic, paper, bamboo, wood, etc) to be too expensive to be used as replacement.
Bioplastic, like the corn-based PLA, is still at its nascent stage. Technology is not matured nor demand is great enough for the price to lower down to a competitive level, as compared to traditional petroleum-based plastic. But the least we could do is to educate the general public of the existence of these eco-friendly alternatives and to promote the awareness of the disadvanatages of petroleum-based plastic.