http://spudware.com The SpudWare® Story Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:57:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What do you think about agricultural waste. Maybe you haven't thought much because you live in the city. Get out of central humanity and you are bound to run into Ag Waste. Like Rice Straw in the Central Valley or Wheat Straw in Eastern Washington. All farming creates a feedstock ... http://spudware.com/2010/agricultural-waste-feedstock/ I was contacted last summer by Meredith Hughes from The Potato Museum located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They were interested in putting examples of SpudWare® utensils in the museum. Sounded great to me and we have sent them some to display.  I think potatoes are great. I especially like baked ... http://spudware.com/2010/spudware%c2%ae-in-the-potato-museum/ SpudWare® is one part of a larger biobased foodservice packaging program. 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 ... http://spudware.com/2010/the-biomass-packaging%c2%ae-story/ Imagine the possibility of a Sustainable. Compostable and Capturable Waste stream.  Technology is moving quickly towards giving us the ability to utilize any biomass for either fuel or packaging feedstock. Agricultural Waste is generated all over the United States in the various forms determined by what is grown. In Eastern ... http://spudware.com/2009/a-sustainable-waste-stream-system/ I have just returned from a couple of weeks in the Bahamas on a very good vacation. As we walked along the beach we observed  bits of clear plastic and  styrofoam pieces that were mixed in with the seaweed and shells along the water lapping edge of the Atlantic Ocean. Seeing the ... http://spudware.com/2009/islands-of-plastic/ More cities and counties are moving forward to enact regulations that ban polystyrene for foodservice packaging use. Polystyrene is seen as a significant pollutant at all life stages. The polluting process begins at the factory where the plastic beads are blown away from the manufacturing site and much of it ... http://spudware.com/2009/government-efforts-to-ban-polystyrenestyrofoam-clear-hinged-containers-plates-utensils-continue-to-grow/ I had an interesting conversation with Christine Sayre Goldstein regarding her company Potatote. She is intent on bringing potato based plastic tshirt bags into the market. It is very difficult to make something really new like a potatote.  But I do like the name. It is the effort of individuals that ... http://spudware.com/2009/the-potatote-dilemma/ SpudWare®, it makes a connection. When you realize that plastic can be made of vegetable that is one thing. But the potato is everyday news, ordinary like plastic. Why is it that a material so involved in our day to day lives has no part in public education. I am ... http://spudware.com/2009/the-mission-of-spudware%c2%ae/