Partygoers in New Zealand can now eat their barbecue food off Potatoplates ñ 100 per cent biodegradable plates, guaranteed not to last!

Potatoes, on their journey from spud farm to french fry, are blasted with water, washed, scrubbed and pushed at high speed through a tube fitted with a series of knives. The wastewater from this is full of starch and is extracted. The clean water is reused by the potato processor whilst the dried potato starch is used by Potatopak to make trays and plates.

The New Zealand company, licensed by Potatopak Ltd., UK, has received an Environmental Packing Award, an Environmental Green Heart Award and has been named one of the country’s top five most exciting companies. In Britain, Potatopak is supplying food-packaging trays to some UK super-markets for organic produce and they have a full range of punnets, trays, bowls and plates available for the food packaging and catering trade. Among their customers is The National Trust.

Potatopak’s driving ambition is to reduce and replace toxic, undesirable, non-biodegradable polystyrene and other plastics from the global ecosystem. It is committed to helping clean up the environment with a dual approach: by utilizing the starch from potato processing plants’ waste water and converting it into a product that will help reduce landfill because it is biodegradable.

New Zealanders can order Potato-plates on-line as well as wooden cutlery, knives, forks and spoons, as a complete environmentally friendly solution for barbecues, picnics and parties. The very small amount of waste product, which is produced in making Potatoplates, is all given to the local pig farmer.
FURTHER INFORMATION : Potatopak Ltd., Seafire Hangar, Henstridge Airfield, Henstridge, Somerset, BA8 OTN
Tel: 01963 362744
WEB SITE : http://​www​.potatoplates​.com