It's Easy Being Green

These are the composting coffee cups and sleeves used by one of my favorite local coffee shops and made by World Centric

Back in November I wrote about how one of my favorite local coffee shops switched their paper to-go cups to a cup that can actually be composted when you’re done with it.  World Centric, the company that produces the cups, claimed the cup would break down in a home composter within 2 to 4 months.  Some commented on my original post and said it was hogwash.

Several weeks ago when I began building my square foot gardening space, I had to relocated my compost bin.  I had to empty the entire thing of compost, move it over and re-fill it.  While doing this, I sifted through the compost looking for the two composting coffee cups and sleeves I dropped in back in November.

My two used coffee cups dropped in the composter. They ended up disappearing over the winter in just 3 months time!

I’m pleased to announce they were gone, at least in the sense that they no longer looked like a coffee cup.  There wasn’t even a single piece of cup that I could detect in the compost after about 3 months of sitting.  That was over the coldest months of the year too, so I imagine they’ll disappear even quicker when the compost really heats up this Summer.  Kudos to World Centric for this development and producing a product that really does break down after use!

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