Did you ever imagine that you could eat up your spoon too?
Yep! That’s right, an enterprising inventor welcomes you to a world of eco-friendly utensils. Purpose is simple, to provide an effective alternative to plastic disposable cutlery. Fun part is these utensils even come with flavors. Yay!
One of the bigger challenges now is to create an awareness about the harmful health effects of plastic. It’s often used just once before being thrown in the bin, and every year vast quantities of plastic knives, forks and spoons end up in landfill, where they release harmful substances into the soil as they decompose.
It’s Bakeys we’re talking about, founded in Hyderabad, India, 2011 says, these utensils are made from millet, rice and wheat. Moreover, it employs 9 women and sells 1.5 million spoons. They contain NO chemicals/preservatives/fat/plasticizes, emulsifiers, artificial color or milk products. In fact they contain nothing that is not a plant product (except salt, which is added for taste). If you use a Bakeys spoon and don’t eat it, it’ll decompose in less than a week. What a better way to give back to the world?
Bakeys also have plans of introducing other cutlery products like the forks, soup spoons, dessert spoons, salad bowls and even chopsticks Salad bowls, all are made at a prototype scale and will be introduced with variety of shapes by 2k17.
Do you think this could be one of the ways to save the world? Or would you be willing to eat/buy edible cutlery? So, with these products, you can be sure that you are the first to be putting it into your mouth, not like those plastic ones which might have already been put in someone else’s mouth!
Kluchit Staff
Maryam Khurram
