Comments on: 100% Corn-Based Packaging Now In Use

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:36:06 +0000

I work at UofMich and we order tons of lunches from different restaurants around town. I HATE to throw away the big plastic catering trays w/lids. at least 4 every day just in our department alone.

If there is an alternative I want to help market it! Can you team up with one local restaraunt and see if we can make a difference?????

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 06:25:20 +0000

If they would just separate out corn to a facility that takes only GMO-free corn and use that to make their packaging, organic food manufacturers would feel that they can ethically purchase the containers. This would be a huge, untapped market for Cargill and they should pursue it by finding at least one facility that only processes GMO-free corn.

By: WorldChanging: Another World Is Here

WorldChanging: Another World Is Here — Sun, 19 Dec 2004 19:40:59 +0000

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By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 04:11:36 +0000

We agree that organically raised corn would have to be used to make this product truly environmentally sound, and yes we do have concerns about the ethics the Dow Chemical company (see this article or this website for example [not all the opinions expressed on these pages are our own]). However we feel that Cargill Dow's bioplastic is worth highlighting because it may open doors for other manufacturers' bioplastics, and may raise the public's awareness of bioplastic in general.

By: Silus Grok

Silus Grok — Sat, 18 Dec 2004 03:19:19 +0000

This is exciting — but it’ll be more exciting when the corn harvested to make the plastic is grown organically. Until then, this is just a chemical company finding ways of keeping farmers addicted to large-scale, chemically intensive farming.