How to Recognise Corn Starch Packaging?- 6 Things You Must Know between Corn Starch-Based Plastic and Our Biodegradable Corn Tableware

 

Green Olive has launched a new innovative eco-friendly packaging product this year, which is made from natural corn starch including biodegradable eco-friendly tableware, such as biodegradable plates and bowls, eco-friendly food containers, biodegradable dishes, etc., and inner biodegradable packaging applied to cosmetics, consumer electronics, pharmaceutical products, etc. Corn starch biodegradable packaging is non-toxic, plastic-free and more eco-friendly. It has received much positive feedback from the market since its release.

 

But we found many customers often mixed our corn starch packaging products with cornstarch-based plastic products before seeing them physically. Though both are called biodegradable disposable tableware, there are still some differences between them. How to recognize corn starch packaging? So here we sum up the main points between the two different food packaging materials for your easy understanding of our biodegradable corn starch tableware products.

 

 

1. By Color

Corn starch-based plastic tableware looks ivory white and white, our tableware is white, if not mixed with rice rusk or natural wood pulp(it’s dark brown when mixed with rice husk or natural wood pulp). Please see attached pictures for comparison.

                                                              The left soup bowl is our corn starch bowl, the right is a cornstarch-based plastic bowl, the color of the right bowl is ivory white.

2. By feel

Our green eco-friendly tableware is more like foam but no plastic, it’s thick. Corn starch-based plastic product looks like plastic, as it contains as high as 30% plastic. Our green dinnerware set is plastic-free, or only 1%-2% plastic just for waterproof purposes depending on the application. There is a natural texture on the surface of Green Olive corn starch plates or bowls( see below corn starch plate). Corn starch-based plastic tableware is thin and feels more like plastic.

 

3. By soaking

Our eco-friendly corn starch packaging is easy to get melted like tissue in water after a few minutes soaking, while the latter can’t be melted even for days. Our biodegradable tableware can be fully decomposed in 20-30 days, it breaks down into water and carbon dioxide after degradation, no toxic substances left hence more eco-friendly.

 

 

4. By smelling

Green Olive biodegradable disposable packaging products smell like popcorn, a very natural smell. It is food grade and fully comply with FDA and EU food safety standards, the latter doesn’t have such smell.

 

5. By stretching

Green Olive tableware is sturdy and durable than bagasse tableware, but less durable than plastic as Green Olive green eco friendly dinnerware including all product range such as corn starch plates and bowls, take away food containers, biodegradable corn starch cups, food trays for fresh vegetables and fruits, do not contain plastic or only very little sprayed on the surface of the products for moister barrier. But if by stretching with hands, it will get broken if stretch hard, while cornstarch-based plastic tableware can’t be destroyed into pieces by hands easily due to plastic’s physical properties.

 

6. By composition analysis

Green Olive biodegradable tableware contains as high as 90% corn starch, and the other 10% is wood pulp, all-natural material and biodegradable; cornstarch-based plastic tableware contains 60-70 percentage corn starch, the other is resin, plastic, coupling agent, etc.