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http://vivbizclub.com/blog/2010/02/02/bagasse/ - What's up everybody - We're coming at you here live from the Viv Biz Club offices in San Francisco, and today we want to talk Bagasse. We'd like to give y'all a quick overview of bagasse and bagasse food packaging products and then give y'all 3 quick reasons why we're fans of bagasse food packaging. So here it is - Bagasse, if you don't know, is a discarded by product of the sugarcane production process. Essentially, sugarcane when it's brought to a plant to be processed is squeezed for its juice and the left over remaining fibrous material is bagasse. Bagasse has been traditionally just discarded or it has been used a fuel in some plants to power the sugarcane production facilities, but unfortunately as part of being used as a fuel it does create some pollutants in the atmosphere. Today, bagasse is being used as food packaging, and here are the 3 quick reasons why we are fans of bagasse food packaging. #1 - Sustainability. Bagasse comes from ...

http://vivbizclub.com/products/biodegradable-food-packaging/compostable-cold-cups/ What's up everybody - We're coming at you here live from our Viv offices and today we're giving y'all 4 quick tips to make sure that your corn cups are indeed composted. Before we do that though, we want to give you a quick run down on how corn... becomes a cup. So, field corn is harvested, the sugar from the corn (the dextrose) is then extracted, that dextrose is turned into lactic acid, lactic acid become polylactic acid, and then those polylactic acid pellets are molded into your corn cup. So here are your 4 tips for making sure that these corn cups get composted. #1 - make sure that you're buying corn cups that are BPI certified and meet ASTM standards D6400, D6868, and/or EN13432. The simplest way to do that is just to head over to BPIworld.org look up your manufacturer on their approved products list and make sure that the manufacturer is BPI certified. Tip #2 - You want to make sure that your cup has green ...

http://vivbizclub.com/ What's up everybody! We're coming at you here live from the Viv offices in San Francisco and we're here to tell you one thing - that is one thing only - and that is that THE WORD BIODEGRADABLE DOES NOT MEAN THE SAME THING AS THE WORD COMPOSTABLE. We're going to walk you through 3 things: 1) the definition of the word compostable, 2) the definition of the word biodegradable, and 3) how to make sure that when you're buying food packaging that's marked compostable or biodegradable, you're not being greenwashed. Here it is. The word compostable has a definition that is strictly controlled by the scientific standards ASTM D6400, ASTM D6868, and EN13432. It means 3 things. #1) Biodegradability - It means that 60-90% of your product is going to break down within 180 days. #2) Disintegration - 90% of your product is going to break down into (itty bitty) pieces that are 2mm in size of less. #3) Eco-Toxicity - That means that when that product breaks down in a commercial composting ...

http://vivbizclub.com/blog/2010/06/16/biodegradable-coffee-cups/ What's up everybody? We're coming at your here live from our Viv offices and today we are giving y'all 4 quick tips to purchasing compostable hot cups. Here it is. 4 tips - under 3 minutes. Tip #1 - You're looking for hot cups that are BPI certified and meet ASTM standards D6400 and D6868. What you're looking for though is that there is proper labeling of those compostability standards. That means you're looking for 1) a green stripe on your cups and 2) the word compostable. That's how you know that the cups go in a compost container and that's how the folks at composting and recycling facilities know that this cup is compostable. Tip #2 - You're looking for a bio-plastic lining inside the cup. Take a deep look in there. I know you can't tell if it's a bio-plastic, but trust me it is. Bio-plastic lining is important because 90+% of composting facilities don't accept hot cups that don't have a bio-plastic lining. There are a lot of hot ...