{"id":101029,"date":"2020-01-18T02:31:39","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T10:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/worlds-first-biodegradable-coffee-cup-that-grows-flowers-and-trees-when-thrown-away"},"modified":"2020-01-18T02:31:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T10:31:39","slug":"worlds-first-biodegradable-coffee-cup-that-grows-flowers-and-trees-when-thrown-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/worlds-first-biodegradable-coffee-cup-that-grows-flowers-and-trees-when-thrown-away","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s first biodegradable coffee cup that grows flowers and trees when thrown away!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-first-biodegradable-coffee-cup-that-grows-flowers-and-trees-when-thrown-away.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise that the world is wasting <a title=\"The world wastes $400 billion of food yearly: Investing in sustainable food can help!\" href=\"http:\/\/news.therawfoodworld.com\/world-wastes-400-billion-food-yearly-investing-sustainable-food-can-help\/\">billions of dollars<\/a> on food, throwing out un-recycled trash, and filling landfills with other odds and ends. In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, as of 2012 Americans generated 251 million tons of trash or garbage. Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>There are creative ways to reduce the amount of waste such as source reduction, recycling, or even composting. A few people in the world strive to live an almost complete waste-free lifestyle by the practice of <a title=\"Humanure \u2013 Living a Zero Waste Lifestyle\" href=\"http:\/\/news.therawfoodworld.com\/humanure-living-zero-waste-lifestyle\/\">humanure<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We see refuse receptacles at work and around public places. However, even when garbage and recycle bins are available, some folks choose to throw away trash mindlessly by littering. What if there was a way to help reduce waste that goes beyond making sure trash gets into a bin?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s no surprise that the world is wasting billions of dollars on food, throwing out un-recycled trash, and filling landfills with other odds and ends. In fact, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, as of 2012 Americans generated 251 million tons of trash or garbage. Yikes! There are creative ways to reduce the amount of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}