Fellow Massachusetts injection molder UrthPact LLC has teamed up with plastics recycling company Preserve to create a new line of environmentally friendly, single-use, cutlery!
The Earth friendly utensils are being used at in-store cafes at a major organic grocery store chain. They have not released the name of their partner but promises that it will be recognizable.
A pilot project, designed to test the effectiveness of the cutlery’s dispensers, will include six stores in the Northeast. A full roll-out of the program, not dependent on the pilot, is set for some 400 locations on March 1. In this new program, UrthPath will manufacture cutlery — forks, knives, teaspoons and soup spoons — from recycled polypropylene for use in the cafes. Customers will then be able to deposit the Preserve branded and distributed cutlery into on-site collection containers. Preserve will then see that the used cutlery is recycled again into new products.
Great for the environment and for the world! A big thumbs up from us!