The hippest, most eco-friendly paperboard utensils available featured on TreeLiving
EcoTensil Inc. creates the hippest, most eco-friendly paperboard utensils available. Our products are biodegradable, recyclable made in USA from sustainable material and use less material than other plastic and biodegradable utensils. Click here to watch CFO Brad Cross describe it at Natural Products Expo.
Improve Demo Results with a Wave of Paperboard Spoons
In the uber-competitive grocery marketplace, demos give you just one taste to wow your customer. Until now, utensils used in sampling have not posed an opportunity to improve the customer product experience. The new ultra-smooth, paperboard tasting spoon, EcoTaster, provides an enhanced tasting experience.
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Tapping the Prison Market
When Cross launched EcoTensil, in 2010, her goal was to make the experience of eating yogurt and other single-serve food items a little greener. The company’s first product, SpoonLidz, is what it sounds like—a container lid made of coated paperboard that, with a strategic fold, turns into an eco-friendly spoon. Cross was having a prototype made at a print shop in Sacramento when an employee of nearby Folsom State Prison came in and mentioned he was looking for utensils to be used by dangerous inmates. When the printer showed him Cross’s product, he knew it was just what he needed. Paperboard, after all, is not just a green alternative to plastic; it’s also a safer one, because it can’t be turned into a weapon.
EcoTaster tasting utensil among new products recognized by retailers at Expo East
Innovation and excellence within the natural, organic and healthy living industries were recognized by awarding these brands with top honors—selected for the New Products Showcase Awards by a vote of retail buyers attending the show. EcoTensil products were honored in the Green / Environmentally Friendly category.
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Ecotensil makes food sampling sustainable
Offering tasting samples to customers is a staple of the food industry. But all those trashcans full of mini plastic spoons and cups is not exactly staying true to the eco-friendly ideals of those in the natural and organic food world. This is why we caught up with Peggy Cross at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco. She is the founder of Ecotensil, a company that has created a simple, less wasteful way to offer samples.
The Differences Between “Compostable” & “Biodegradable”
The terminology pertaining to green materials can confuse even the savviest consumer. With the proliferation of bioplastics and greenwashing, the understanding of this difference becomes even more critical. Contrary to most consumers’ understanding, most “biodegradable” bioplastics don’t break down in compost facilities and therefore end up in landfill, taking up space for thousands of years. A product that has been labeled compostable means it’s guaranteed to meet compost facility standards and will break down within 180 days.
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Tips for a greener tradeshow
LARKSPUR, CA — Food retailers and manufacturers know that one taste of your product can create a lifelong customer, and many are learning there are ways you can improve your customer’s experience of your product. EcoTensil, maker of silky-smooth paperboard utensils, provides a more satisfying sampling experience while offering an eco-friendly alternative to plastic sampling spoons.
Attention: Frozen Yogurt Shops of America
One highlight used at the Stonyfield booth was the clever EcoTaster, a mini paperboard spoon created to end single-use plastic spoons. Recyclable, stackable, compostable, and made of FSC paperboard with minimal material, the creation by Peggy Cross, a former packaging designer intends to reduce the 40 billion plastic utensils that end up in landfill each year.
