biodegradable cutlery

Biodegradable and eco-friendly tableware by these eight Indian brands will force you to rethink your lifestyle.

Kerala-based Vinayakumar Balakrishnan runs Thooshan with his wife Indira. Together they make eco-friendly tableware using rice and wheat bran. Here’s their story.

With banana leaves, wheat and rice bran, millet waste and more, Coimbatore entrepreneur Kalyana Kumar has innovated machinery that can churn out eco-friendly and biodegradable single-use cutlery and containers.

The turnover of the alternate and eco-friendly products industry is pegged at Rs 500 crore.

So you have adopted a healthy lifestyle and are eating salads enriched with the goodness of organic fruits and vegetables these days? But what about the takeout containers you are having these salads in? If they are made of plastic then you need to think carefully about the overall effect this is having on your body.