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 Sugarcane
Eco-Products offers a 100 percent compostable alternative to
conventional tree-based paper products. Known as Bagasse, these paper
items are made from sugarcane fiber after the sugar ‘juice’ has been
extracted. This renewable resource is grown and harvested every year and
a half. Typically, sugarcane fiber is a discarded by-product from cane
sugar manufacturing, but Eco-Products uses the material, creating an
end-user product and completing the circle.
Advantages of Sugarcane:
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Completely compostable, but without using any trees for production .It
takes three tons of our world’s precious trees to make one ton of paper,
and a tree can take up to 30 years to mature. One ton of crushed
sugarcane produces between 250 and 300 kg of bagasse.
• Converting
sugarcane to paper requires less energy resources compared to using tree
fiber.
• Consumers can still use disposable ‘paper’ products, but
with less impact on natural resources.
• If disposed of in a
commercial composting facility, sugarcane items will compost in as
little as 45 days
• Takes advantage of industry an by-product that is
normally burned or discarded.
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