page_title: Disposable food packaging
section_title: Wood and Bamboo
hierarchical_section_title: Disposable food packaging / Materials / Wood and Bamboo
caption_attribution_description: English: Customer eating salad with a wood fork in a restaurant
context_page_description: Disposable food packaging comprises disposable items often found in fast food restaurants, takeout restaurants and kiosks, and catering establishments. Food-serving items for picnics and parties are very similar. Typical disposable foodservice products are foam food containers, plates, bowls, cups, utensils, doilies and tray papers. These products can be made from a number of materials including plastics, paper, bioresins, wood and bamboo.
  Packaging of fast food and take-out food involves a significant amount of material that ends up in landfill, recycling, composting or litter.
context_section_description: In recent years, manufacturers have been working on developing more sustainable alternatives to traditional plastic products. Amongst them are plates and cutlery made from bamboo and wood (mostly birch). Throughout the entire life cycle of wood products, there can be far fewer environmental repercussions than with traditional plastics, and possibly fewer with bioplastics like PLA, which composts into lactic acid. Wooden  products decompose on average in the matter of a few months. Currently wood and bamboo products are more costly than traditional plastics and not as widely available, which makes it challenging for some restaurants to switch.
caption: Disposable Wood Fork [7]
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