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Tampa Bay Food Fight 2019
Posted by Foodstiks Wood Cutlery onThe Tampa Bay Food Fight (also known as Battle of the Bay), is a yearly event organized by Metropolitan Ministries, that is raising funds for its Culinary Arts Program. The program prepares at-risk students in the skill of culinary arts at no cost to them. During the event teams of chefs from...
What Happens To The World's Plastic Waste?
Posted by Foodstiks Wood Cutlery onIn her article "Mapping the World's Plastic Waste Flows" Iman Gosh perfectly portrays what happens to all the plastic waste we always assume is being recycled. Since 1950 humans have created approximately 6,300,000,000 metric tons of plastic waste. To date only 9% of that plastic is being recycled. Almost 80% ends up...
St Petersburg bans plastic straws and styrofoam
Posted by Foodstiks Compostable Wood Cutlery onWe are proud that our home town St Pete joins the list of cities to legally ban plastic straws and styrofoam. Many restaurants already participated in a voluntary campaign to hand out straws only on request (No Straw St Pete). After many months of discussion the city council voted last night...
How sustainable are plastic cutlery alternatives?
Posted by Foodstiks Compostable Wood Cutlery onWe all know that plastic is not only a popular, versatile product in today’s world, but that it also has no place in nature and is a big cause of pollution, clogging our rivers and oceans, choking birds and fish and generally hurting our environment. With this knowledge, there has...
Foodstiks voted "Best New Product"
Posted by Foodstiks Compostable Wood Cutlery onWe are proud to be awarded the prize for the "Best New Product" at the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Show 2018 in Orlando. Together with 12 other finalists we were selected from over 450 products to "Pitch The Press" and won the prize for the most innovative "Best New Product". Thank you...