How to make disposable food containers from environmentally-friendly plant fiber raw materials?
The main component of plant fiber is cellulose, which is the major element of plant cell walls. The sources of plant fiber include herbal plants (sugar cane, reed, bamboo, etc.), bast fiber (mulberry), cotton fiber, rice stems, kapok, etc., as well as including woody plants, such as trees, shrubs, vines, conifers, broadleaf trees and other alpine tree species.
The plant-fiber-made food containers are usually made from a variety of plant fiber raw materials compounded together in good proportion, comprising, sugarcane pulp, wheat straw pulp, wood pulp, etc. Moreover, sugarcane pulp and bamboo pulp are natural high-polymer compounds, so they can be 100% degraded by the natural environment in 40-90 days without residues of heavy metals and plasticizers to poisoning the soils and air and also without secondary pollution hazards occurring accordingly.