Ans: Pappco products are made from natural fibers like sugarcane bagasse, wheat straw & bamboo fiber. Our products are 100% eco friendly, compostable & biodegradable.

Ans: Compostable Product is a product which is "capable of undergoing biological decomposition in a compost site as part of an available program, such that the product is not visually distinguishable and breaks down to carbon dioxide, water, inorganic compounds, and biomass, at a rate consistent with known compostable materials and leaves no toxic residue."

Biodegradable Products are products which will degrade from naturally occurring microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi etc. over a period of time. Note, that there is no requirement for leaving "no toxic residue", and as well as no requirement for the time it needs to take to biodegrade.

Ans:  Pappco Greenware’s plant fiber products are very strong & quality products. Can handle hot foods & beverages as they won’t bend or break when served in them. Pappco products are microwavable till 100° C.

Ans: Pappco Greenware is a brand that supports to save the environment from getting polluted. As in the market lots of disposables are available with very cheap pricing, but they are made from plastic & styrofoam which is not good for your health as they release chemical in your foods & beverages. And many of these chemicals are known to cause cancer.

Over 20 million tons of plastic are sent to landfill each year. As compared with other disposables available in the market our products are much better in quality & strength, environment friendly & food safe to keep you healthy.

Ans: PLA and bagasse products have an estimated shelf life of two years. Products should be stored in a cool dry area to achieve maximum life expectancy. PLA products should not be exposed to heat levels over 110 degrees F.

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• Bio compostable products do not decompose on their own. They must enter the composting process. This entails putting them into the soil with food, yard waste and other organic materials. Once the Bio compostable product enters the compost system, it will decompose over a few months. Decomposition time is dependent on two factors.

• One factor is the way in which biodegradable products are disposed of in a commercial composting system, as commercial compost piles contain large amounts of moisture, are kept at a high heat and are aerated frequently. In commercial composting systems bioplastics are expected to degrade within 180 days. Within a home composting system, where high levels of heat are not able to be reached and where aeration depends on how often the owner is willing to turn their pile, bioplastics can take more than 180 days to degrade.

• Another factor is product thickness. The thicker a product is the longer it will take to degrade. Many commercial facilities grind or cut products such as biodegradable cutlery in smaller pieces to decrease degradation time.
  

• Bagasse:-
  

Tableware made out of Bagasse, a fibrous byproduct of sugar production, is a substitute for disposable paper tableware. Bagasse tableware is often marketed as biodegradable or compostable. Bagasse products are renewable resource products. Bagasse products are made from a secondary waste product of making sugar and therefore do not impact food supply. Bagasse products are made with less energy and water as compared to any other paper products.

• Bioplastics:-
  

Bioplastics are plastics made from plants, algae, or microorganisms. The two most common bioplastics for foodservice ware - PLA and PHA - are made from corn. However, bioplastics can also be made from wheat, rice, potatoes, barley, or sorghum. Bioplastics products are made from plants, a renewable resource. Bioplastics production uses less energy than conventional plastics and emits less carbon dioxide. Bioplastics do not have the same known health risks as petroleum plastics.

Ans: Most of our manufacturing takes place in China. We do this to keep manufacturing closer to the raw materials as the type of sugarcane pulp and bamboo fiber pulp required is easily available in that region. 

Ans:  Bamboo steamers are not dishwasher safe and microwave safe. They should be only cleaned with a mild cleaner if anything at all. They need to be stored in a cool, dry place.

Ans:  It depends on how you use the steamer while cooking food in it, if no food is stuck on the interior, the application of water alone should suffice. But how to clean a food steamer with food stuck to it? The first move should be to take the step above. Use a nailbrush to apply a little more pressure to remove the caked-on food. It is preferable to avoid using any kind of soap, since the taste can linger in the bamboo. But if need be, apply a small amount of dishwashing detergent, like Persil Washing Up Liquid – preferably mild and unflavored – to a cloth and rub the food away using the cloth. Then rinse the steamer with hot water, again taking care not to submerge it or expose it to too much water. If you handle it with care and keep it safe after the usage then the lifespan of food steamer you use has no limit.

Ans:  For large orders we offer do offer discounts based on the quantity and value of the order. For the same you can contact – 022 22414333.

Also we have regular discounts and offers running on our own website store as well. 

Ans:  Forests cover 30% of the earth’s land. It is estimated that within 100 years there will be no rainforests. If the current rate of deforestation continues, it will take less than 100 years to destroy all the rainforests on the earth. The paper industry is fourth largest in producing greenhouse gas thereby majorly contributing to deforestation. As pappco products does not support deforestation for the making of its product as all the product are completely 100% eco friendly and support the environment from getting polluted.

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• Bagasse products are 100% biodegradable and compostable. Bagasse products are natural fiber products and it biodegrades in 90 days. When bagasse products degrade, they provide natural ingredients back to environment since they are made from natural, organic and renewable materials.

• Bagasse products are perfect alternatives to petroleum based Styrofoam and plastic products which take thousands of years to degrade.

• Also Bagasse products are heat tolerant can even be put in the microwave or the freezer. As with paper, extremely hot food might cause sugarcane to lose some of its strength, but it is one of the best compostable food service materials that can handle hot temperatures.

• Bagasse products hold liquids well and  they are grease and cut resistant. With very hot liquid, bagasse products may be more likely to loose strength or perspire after a certain period of time.
  

Ans: Pappco products are not recommended for human consumption. While our products are generally non-toxic, but they are not edible products. If accidentally ingested, contact your physician.

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• Harmful Effects of Plastic :-
  

A sea change in building technology arrived in the 1950s with the “Age of Plastic.” Industrial development of fossil fuels into a wide array of plastics changed formulations in everything from insulation to mechanicals to paint, and plastic is still a ubiquitous component of every building assembly. Unfortunately, the impacts of plastic production in its many forms are heavy in every phase of its life cycle. While there is a common general understanding that plastics have negative ecological associations, a closer understanding of what types of plastics create what types of impacts will empower us to improve the toxic footprint of our buildings.

Plastics are not inherently bad, and they have many redeeming ecological features; in fact, many of the techniques we utilize in our designs involve targeted use of plastic products. Their durability and low maintenance reduce material replacement, their light weight reduces shipping energy, their formulation into glue products allows for the creation of engineered lumber and sheet products from recycled wood, and their formulation into superior insulation and sealant products improves the energy performance of our structures.

The feedstock of plastic is primarily petroleum- or natural-gas-derived, although bio-plastics are making inroads in the overall market share of plastic products. Obvious issues emerge regarding the finite amount of available petroleum resources, as well as the pollution associated with oil extraction and refinement; the massive Gulf Coast oil spill of 2010 is only one of the more notorious of the many ecologically devastating accidents that are not frequently considered in addition to the standard pollution impacts of extraction and refinement, which are extensive.

Toxic chemical release during manufacture is another significant source of the negative environmental impact of plastics. A whole host of carcinogenic, neurotoxic, and hormone-disruptive chemicals are standard ingredients and waste products of plastic production, and they inevitably find their way into our ecology through water, land, and air pollution. Some of the more familiar compounds include vinyl chloride (in PVC), dioxins (in PVC), benzene (in polystyrene), phthalates and other plasticizers (in PVC and others), formaldehyde, and bisphenol-A, or BPA (in polycarbonate). Many of these are persistent organic pollutants (POPs)—some of the most damaging toxins on the planet, owing to a combination of their persistence in the environment and their high levels of toxicity. These are discussed in greater detail later in this chapter as a consideration of human health; however, their unmitigated release into the environment affects all terrestrial and aquatic life with which they come into contact.

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According to the WWF, 100,000 marine mammals are killed by plastic rubbish each year around the world. Sea animals can become entangled in the plastic debris which can cause strangulation or growth deformations.  Floating plastics can be mistaken for food, causing blockages within the animal’s digestive systems leading to eventual death.

The IOSEA report that the lifespan of the average plastic bag may be between 200 to 400 years, well outlasting the affected animal, while a plastic bottle is thought to take 450 years to fully break down.

• What Happened to this Whale?
  

In August 2000 an autopsy on a dead Bryde’s whale near Cairns, Australia, revealed that its stomach was tightly packed with not food but six square metres [that’s almost 200 square feet – ed.] of plastic rubbish, including supermarket bags, food packages, and fragments of rubbish bags.

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• Deforestation
  

Nearly 4 billion trees worldwide are cut down each year for paper, representing about 35 percent of all harvested trees.

Take a minute to look around the room you’re in and notice how many things are made out of paper. There may be books, a few magazines, some printer paper, and perhaps a poster on the wall. Yet, if you consider that each person in the United States uses 749 pounds (340kg) of paper every year (adding up to a whopping 187 billion pounds (85 billion kg) per year for the entire population, by far the largest per capita consumption rate of paper for any country in the world), then you realize that paper comes in many more forms than meets the eye.

World consumption of paper has grown 400 percent in the last 40 years. Now nearly 4 billion trees or 35 percent of the total trees cut around the world are used in paper industries on every continent. Besides what you can see around you, paper comes in many forms from tissue paper to cardboard packaging to stereo speakers to electrical plugs to home insulation to the sole inserts in your tennis shoes. In short, paper is everywhere. 

• Air Pollution
  

Pulp and paper mills are large sources of standard air pollutants, such as carbon dioxide, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxides, carbon monoxides and particulates. These contribute to ozone warnings, acid rain, global warming and respiratory problems. Many of the mills are large enough to have their own coal-fired power plants, raising additional concerns about mercury, arsenic and radioactive emissions.

• Water Pollution
  

Pulp and paper mills are considered one of the most polluting industries worldwide. Paper making process demands large amount of fresh water and produces enormous quantities of wastewater. The wastewater is contaminated by a number of organic and inorganic chemicals including lignin, cellulosic compounds, phenols, mercaptans, sulfides and chlorinated compounds. The amount and characteristics of wastewater depends upon scale of operation, raw materials used and the process employed. Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) and chemical oxygen demand (COD) of the waste stream may be in the ranges of 10 – 40 kg/t and 20 – 200 kg/t of air dried pulp, respectively.

Generally, small pulp and paper mills (< 100 t/d) generate smaller quantities of wastewater but with higher pollution load. In a pulp and paper mill, several unit processes are used for manufacturing the final product. Pulping and bleaching processes are the two major sources of highly polluted water. The wastewater from pulp and paper mills has generally low biodegradability due to the presence of recalcitrant compounds. These pollutants are resistant to conventional biological treatment processes and inhibit the purification of the wastewater.

Disposal of such wastewater in aquatic bodies can have severe adverse impacts on the living organisms. This short chapter provides an overview of the wastewater generation, its quantities and pollutants emerged from various units in a pulp and paper mill.