In tough times there just aren’t enough dollars to keep our National Parks open and beautiful.

But now there is a way you can help.

Ecotainer® has new compostable hot and cold cups with pictures of our favorite National Parks.  Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Mount Rushmore, Mount Rainier, Lincoln Memorial and Grand Teton National Park are the parks featured..   The really good news is that for every cup sold one penny will be donated to the National Parks Foundation. That equals ten dollars per case. The cups are assorted in the sleeves and cases so we don’t get to bored with the same old print.

There is no down side to supporting this effort. The cups cost the same as the regular printed cups. You don’t have to go to a park to use them either.  Any business can use these attractive and educational cups. They are available right now on  www.biomasspackagingstore.com. Stop by and check them out.

If your local coffee shop isn’t using these cups ask why not?

I know it is possible.

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The BioMass Packaging® For Wineries Catalog consists of picnic and catering items along with bio-based Earth Friendly Products cleaning supplies allowing wineries to achieve a compostable waste stream. Wineries can offer green parties and weddings by using our products. . The Soy Stainless Steel Cleaner is better than 3M’s famous stainless steel cleaner.  This is especially good for winery tasting rooms and churches where the room needs to be a neutral part of  your experience.  Parsley Plus is the biggest seller and you have to experience the smell to appreciate it. It is a very good counter cleaner and there are many others like Lavender Glass Cleaner and of course the Orange based heavy duty cleaners. Let me know if  you would like a sample.

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There are products in the market that look solid and sturdy, but when they get to the application can not stand the heat. Now probably most of the time you can get by, the food you eat isn’t really that hot. The product works at least 80% of the time. That is good enough for government work.

I have to point out that no matter how environmentally sound a product is, if it fails in the application it is a failure. I will not accept that 2 out of 10 times the spoon will melt in the soup. That way lies a future none of us want. The brakes worked 8 out of 10 times. When entering the elevator there is a sign posted, “Your odds are good, the Elevator works 80% of the time.     It is not that failure is unacceptable.  Learning from failure is the key to all success. So the one time out of a thousand that the coffee cup bursts open on your white shirt is a message coming in. The message is NO!! Unacceptable, unusable a total failure. One out of ten thousand is probably acceptable.

As your Brand X spoon drips into your hot chili think of SpudWare®.

75 Million sold, no melting in your soup.

Today is the day to fix it with SpudWare®.

Plastic Forks that never go away must stop being.

(do I need to explain that ssom means SpudWare® State of Mind?)

Out of the exuberance of your life what is the value of your waste feedstock .

My own waste feedstock has things like SpudWare®, spring boxes,car wrecks and cabbage in the garden.

And then there are the relationships.

For those of  you who can’t make it to the Potato Museum in New Mexico, you will be pleased to know that there will be an exhibition on the spud at the US Botanic Garden in Washington, DC. The exhibition opens on May 7, 2010. Drop on by and learn of the great value potatoes have added to human existence.

and now for some potato trivia

• A potato is about 80% water and 20% solid.
• Henry Spalding first planted potatoes in Idaho in 1837
• “French Fries” were introduced to America when Thomas Jefferson served them at a Whitehouse dinner.
• United States potato lovers consumed more than 4 million tons of French Fries in various shapes and sizes.
• Potatoes are a powerful aphrodisiac, says a physician in Ireland.
• The average American eats 140 pounds of potatoes per year. Germans eat more than 200 pounds per year.
• The largest potato grown was 18 pounds and 4 ounces according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It was grown in England in 1795.
• The highest volume baked potato restaurant, The Hot Potato, is located in Plaza las Americas in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

The program is known as  BioMass Packaging®.

We picked the name because we felt that biomass would become known widely as a feedstock used for both packaging and green power generation. Our goal is to achieve a compostable waste stream. It is logical to consider utilizing unvalued agricultural waste feedstocks like corn stalks, wheat stalks or sugarcane bagasse. Other biomass materials would be forest trimmings, seaweed , crabshells and potato starch. The list of potential feedstock is extensive and really only limited by the innovation needed to add the value and create a product.

BioMass Packaging® is now 5 years old and will soon have its own website. Our goal is to create a knowledge center about all things biomass. An educated consumer is very powerful. We rely on that.

Ten years from now, the compostable waste stream will be a reality.

That means we have time to be ready.

That would be stimulating.