We exist to be of service to people and the planet.
We manufacture compostable and reusable foodservice and packaging products and give 25% of our profits to social and environmental organizations to further their work in creating a better world.
25%
of profits donated to grassroots social and environmental organizations
100%
of our disposable products are compostable in commercial composting facilities*
B
certified B Corp using business as a force for good since 2010
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During our daily purchasing life, we need to think about the products we’re buying and ask ourselves: How did it get to the shelf? What did it do to the environment to get there? Where will it go when I’m done with it?
In an active commercial compost, World Centric® products break down in 180 days.*
Plastics and styrofoam products will never breakdown in our lifetime.
In October 2020, the Government of Canada released a Science assessment of plastic pollution, noting that plastic was polluting rivers, lakes and oceans as well as harming wildlife and generating microplastics in drinking water sources. Moving quickly, they then proposed a goal of zero plastic waste by 2030 and the Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) passed a federal single-use plastics ban to help achieve that goal.
The compostables industry currently sees labeling as the most effective way of reducing contamination in the composting material stream. It is our position that labeling has been given an outsized role in many of the conversations about composting policy.