Consider using reusables instead of single-use items.
Most commercial composters across California screen out (remove) and landfill compostable plastic (including BPI-Certified compostable plastic) along with other single-use plastics from food scraps and yard debris during the commercial composting process, as it's a contaminant to the finished compost applied to agricultural lands.
If your City/Hauler accepts BPI-Certified Compostable Plastics in their green/organics bin, here is where to find those food ware products: BPI-certified list
- The BPI-Certified List also includes fiber-based food ware that is PFAS-free and accepted by commercial composting facilities.
The Center for Environmental Health's Green Screen Certified Foodware database shows products without PFOAs and other toxic chemicals. CEH’s foodware database
The Compost Manufacturing Alliance's list of accepted food ware product list by commercial technology type is here.
