Disposable food packaging

As disposable tableware plates, cups and cutlery are called, which are disposed of after use as waste. It is a widespread use in the catering and leisure sector.

Disposable tableware is usually made ​​of cardboard ( paper plates and cups ), plastic ( plastic cup, cups, cutlery ) or aluminum ( Assiette ), rarely also of wood ( french fork) made ​​.

History

The paper plate was invented by Hermann Henschel in Luckenwalde, which made him a patent in 1867.

From 1908, the American Samuel J. Crumbine, a health official from Kansas campaigned for it to accept joint -to-use eating and drinking vessels as a potential means of transmission of disease from the public use. This was done by the Americans Lawrence Luellen and Hugh Moore as an opportunity to invent a disposable paper cup as a unique -to-use drinking vessel.

In the 1930s and - 40s continued in North America, disposable tableware for the supply of workers by.

In 1948, the restaurant chain McDonald's disposable tableware and packaging, to prevent the high cost of conventional reusable dishes (cleaning, losses due to theft and breakage). The waiver of glass and porcelain, it enabled the client for the first time to buy restaurant products and take.

With increasing environmental awareness since the beginning of the 21st century disposable tableware is represented from compostable and / or recycled materials on the market.

Benefits

As the original advantage of disposable dishes were hygienic aspects. Contamination of food by inadequately cleaned ware or the necessity to use of tableware by several people, once the essential aspects for the development of disposable tableware are inhibited.

Another advantage is that the producible inexpensive and with little effort disposable dishes must not be cleaned and stored after use; the expenditure of energy, water and labor for the cleaning of reusable tableware issued as served on disposable tableware product is of a return of the dishes independently and can be taken from the sale accordingly.

Criticism

From the viewpoint of prevention is disposable tableware as well as other disposable packaging and products in the criticism. The production of large amounts of plastic waste in a general waste disposal problem, as well as the improper and illegal disposal of disposable tableware and packaging in nature and landscape.

The city of Kassel failed in 1998 with the introduction of a waste levy on disposable dishes, as well as an advance of several states to introduce a corresponding packaging tax. Recently, such a levy was discussed in 2012 in Berlin to receive fed join the neglect and littering of public space with disposable tableware and packaging.

Other forms

• Sausage cardboard