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Plastic cutleries are one of those items that won’t get recycled even when you put it in the recycling. It’s too contaminated, small, and lightweight. So these plastic utensils are of complete waste. But what if there is a Tasty alternative solution for this problem? In this short film of 4 minutes, we will see about the edible cutlery, found by Narayana Peesapathy, what its benefits are and how it can help to tackle the plastic waste generated due to plastic cutlery.

India generates close to 26,000 tonnes of plastic a day, according to a CPCB estimate from 2012. And in that 120 billion pieces of disposable plastic cutlery are discarded in India per year. Plastic contains many chemical compositions in it like phthalates, bisphenol, etc, leaches in our food, causes cancer, they are non-biodegradable, but we still use plastic disposable cutlery because there is no other option. But now we have an alternative option ‘edible cutlery’. It was founded in 2011 in Hyderabad, India.

Benefits of Edible Cutlery
• It does not have any type of coating on it.
• You can eat up the spoon after use or even if throw it out, it decomposes in 4-5 days
• Highly nutritious
• Having shelf life of three years.
• It can also be used for hot beverages.

Since rice consumes 60 times more water than millet to cultivate, they use millet as a primary source of raw material to make edible cutlery. Narayana Peesapathy has also come up with an idea to make edible cutlery as cheap as plastic cutlery through volumes and when he reaches that volume he would start to procure raw materials directly from the farmers which will help him to make it cheap. And with the help of his discovery, we are able to reduce the amount of plastic waste generated due to plastic cutlery and in the future, we may be able to completely stop the usage of plastic cutlery.

A delicious invention that can save our planet from plastic pollution, isn't it?