HAAGO 200 herbruikbare vorken bestek (wit, 16,5 cm) - Bestek voor feest, buiten of bruiloft - Heavy Duty materialen

When you give a fork about the planet, you’ll buy these!They are solid & do the job they were created for. X

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Using these forks makes food taste better cause you know they are biodegradable ...Actually its doesn't but at least they are biodegradable - probably a bit stiffer than cheap takeway forks too, perfect for your home BBQ and you don't have enough cutlery to go round

Item: HAAGO 200 PLA Biodegradable Compostable Cutlery - forksCurrent price: £13.99If you are considering buying this (or any PLA) cutlery as an environmentally friendly alternative to traditional plastic utensils, please skip to the end of this review and read the section marked “*A note on the ‘green’ / ‘eco’ claims”I don’t think I had realised until opening the box quite how many forks 200 forks was… there are a lot of forks!These forks are lightweight, so handy to take with you if you are camping or picnicking, and just this week I took some with me while I was working away and was in hotel rooms for a few nights, so that I could save the money on eating out for every meal - having some of these forks with me meant I could make instant mash in a pot, or instant noodles in a pot with the kettle and eat in my room if I wanted to.Despite being apparently made of PLA, these forks do not deform in boiling water so I can use them to stir my instant noodle and they only become slightly soft, retaining enough rigidity to stir my food even when in fully boiling water. They also survived being put through the dishwasher on the top rack without deforming in any way. I use PLA for 3D printing and typically anything printed in PLA will begin to deform over about 60'C and items I've tried dishwashing have always warped. I'm not sure how these forks cope with the temperature but they do!The fact that these forks are washable and reusable at least stops them from ending up in landfill after a single use like old-style typical plastic disposable cutlery which can't be used in boiling water and can't be cleaned in a dishwasher.The forks have sturdy handles and sturdy enough tines. They are much stronger and more pleasant to use than traditional plastic disposable cutlery which tends to be extremely flimsy and have tines which are too weak to stab food with.If you are going to buy plastic cutlery, then the strength and reusability makes these better option than the white plastic type typically used for parties etc.*A note on the ‘green’ / ‘eco’ claims.This cutlery lists ‘biodegradable’ and ‘compostable’ as a selling point. The photos and product details make a big deal about how environmentally friendly the cutlery is and how it can be broken down to leave ‘no harmful residues’.Please be aware that it will NOT compost down in your compost bin at home, or in soil, or in landfill. It will ONLY biodegrade under very specific conditions in industrial hot composters or anaerobic digesters.The cutlery is made from PLA which is recycling code 7 - most, if not all, local authorities in the U.K. CANNOT recycle code 7 plastics and WILL NOT accept them in recycling bins. Therefore there is no way to biodegrade or compost this cutlery in the U.K. at present. The only alternative is to throw this cutlery in your normal black bin once you are finished with it, where it will end up in landfill and sit, unchanged, for hundreds of years just like all the other plastic cutlery in years past.If you want genuinely biodegradable cutlery, your only options currently are certified biodegradable wood (typically birch) or bamboo, or (if you can find it) sugarcane bagasse - all of which CAN be composted in your home composting system.