May 20, 2023
Leominster, MA. (May 20, 2023): UrthPact – the global leader in certified compostable foodservice ware manufacturing—announces the addition of Boba straws to its line of home and industrial compostable and marine-degradable products. UrthPact is also expanding its customizable color options for its sustainable straws and you can see them at booth #9620.
UrthPact’s new Boba Straw is designed for your customer’s satisfaction and your sustainability business goals. Made from natural, certified compostable materials, the straw is home compostable and biodegradable. They break down into organic matter within months, returning nutrients to the soil and avoiding pollution in our oceans and landfills.
In addition, we offer customers the ability to customize straws to reflect their brand, a promotional color of their choice, and printed messages on the wrap. New colors include orange, cornflower blue, and shades of green and black, which were introduced last year.
UrthPact’s new Boba Straw offers a delightful drinking experience for your customers. The smooth texture and unique design make it perfect for enjoying boba teas, smoothies, milkshakes, and other cold beverages. The straw is also durable and will not break down or become soggy, ensuring your customers can enjoy their drinks to the last sip.
“Our straws not only help mitigate the single-use global plastic problem, unlike paper straws, consumers constantly tell us they function like legacy straws. This ensures they have the same experience they’ve come to expect,” said UrthPact CEO Paul Boudreau. “This straw is just an example of our ability to develop a custom solution to meet any specific requirement,” added Boudreau.
UrthPact straws are available through multiple regional and national distributors. They are used by restaurants, juice bars, hotels, convenience stores, and other businesses offering sustainable straws.
By choosing an UrthPact Straw, your business takes an important step towards a more sustainable future. And your customers will feel good knowing they are reducing their environmental impact.
Manufactured in Leominster, MA, and Lincoln, CA, UrthPact straws reduce the pollution caused by plastic waste, including the pollution generated by shipping plastic straws from China, CO2 pollution, and damage to our forests during the production of paper straws.
For more information about our new Boba Straw, colors, or our other sustainable products, stop by Booth #9620.
Founded in 2013, UrthPact’s mission is to reduce the impact of single-use plastics on our environment by creating single-use products that are certified compostable by BPI and TUV that meet the needs of businesses and their consumers. Products have included compostable cutlery lines that work in a dispensing unit, industrial compostable one-way degassing valves, compostable drinking straws, and the world’s first 100% compostable single-use coffee pod used in Keurig brewers.
May 12, 2023
Straws may not be #1 on your list of sustainable packaging objectives. However, single-use plastic bans, including straws, are impacting multiple cities, counties, and states across the US and other parts of the world.
We all know the benefits of eliminating or minimizing single-use plastics in our environment.
So, ask yourself, why should straws be on your list?
A significant value is generated when you switch from single-use plastics to sustainable alternatives. It’s a solution to a problem. Replacing your plastic straws with a certified compostable solution, such as those offered by UrthPact, can help your business in various ways.
For example…
- Does your business have an ESG goal?
- Did you sign the Climate Pledge?
- Are you looking to address the current plastic bans?
- Do you need to reduce your overall carbon footprint?
- Would you like to offer your customers a more sustainable, customized solution?
- Do you need a more economical, sustainable solution?
As a contract manufacturer, UrthPact specializes in providing certified home and industrial compostable and marine-degradable alternatives to plastic and paper straws. We believe it is essential to offer sustainable products made from renewable resources that are convenient, reliable, economical, and durable.
As a contract manufacturer, when you work with UrthPact, you can have it your way. We will customize a straw to meet your branding requirements, including sizes, colors, and wrap messages.
Our straws are better for the environment than plastic and paper alternatives and are more durable and enjoyable for your customers. Our customers report that our straws are less prone to breaking or going soggy, and the natural materials give them a pleasant texture and taste.
As a company, we are committed to positively impacting the environment. Our company mission is to keep 25 billion plastic parts from polluting our landfills and oceans by 2028.
To help us achieve our goal, we are constantly researching and working with new materials and products to help reduce waste and pollution. Small changes can make a big difference, and by choosing our straws, you are making a conscious decision to reduce your environmental impact in the communities you serve.
Coming to the 2023 National Restaurant Association Show? Stop by Booth #9620 and talk to us about how UrthPact can be your resource and one of the solutions to help you meet your business and sustainability goals.
Founded in 2013, UrthPact’s mission is to reduce the impact of single-use plastics on our environment by creating single-use products that are certified compostable by BPI and TUV that meet the needs of businesses and their consumers.
Jul 8, 2022
Leominster, MA. (July 5, 2022): UrthPact – the leader in compostable foodservice ware manufacturing, announces the addition of a black straw to its disposable straw product line.
Made from plants, PHA is produced through natural fermentation processes using plant oils such as soy and canola, which degrades easily and entirely in multiple environments, including home and commercial compost, soil, and marine. This innovative material lends itself perfectly to straw use. The straws will not get soggy like paper straws, but they are also a game-changer in reducing the single-use plastic straw pollution plaguing our oceans and landfills. They satisfy both environmental activists and the straw sipping consumer.
“Our straws not only help mitigate the single-use global plastic problem, unlike paper straws, consumers cannot tell the difference, ensuring they have the same experience they’ve come to expect,” said UrthPact CEO Paul Boudreau.
Introduced at the National Restaurant Association Show in May of this year, UrthPact is now able to meet the demands of both current and prospective customers. “This straw is just an example of our ability to develop custom-colored straws for any brand,” added Boudreau.
UrthPact’s straws come in a variety of sizes, including Cocktail, Jumbo Standard, Giant Standard, Jumbo Long, and Giant Long. UrthPact straws are available through various regional and national distributors. They are used by restaurants, juice bars, hotels, convenience stores, and other businesses that currently offer straws to their customers.
Manufactured in Leominster, MA, and Sacramento, CA, UrthPact straws reduce the pollution caused by plastic waste. By offering UrthPact straws, businesses reduce the pollution generated by shipping plastic straws from China, CO2 pollution and damage to our forests during the production of a paper straws.
UrthPact straws meet the current city and state plastic bans in the US, Canada, and other countries and helps companies fulfill their sustainability mission.
About UrthPact
Founded in 2013, UrthPact’s mission is to reduce the impact of single-use plastics in our environment by creating single-use products from earth-friendly materials that meet the needs of businesses and consumers. UrthPact is dedicated to its mission of keeping 25 billion plastic parts from polluting landfills and oceans by 2028. To date, products have included compostable cutlery lines that work in a dispensing unit, industrial compostable one-way degassing valves, and compostable drinking straws, as well as the world’s first 100% compostable single-use coffee pod used in Keurig brewers and the world’s only certified compostable water bottle, cap, and label. Follow UrthPact on LinkedIn, Facebook, or @urthpact_llc on Instagram and @urthpact on Twitter.
May 5, 2022
Are you looking to make sustainable changes in your business but aren’t sure where to start? Is your city implementing plastic bans that you need to comply with? Are you customers demanding that you make better choices for the planet? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then UrthPact is here to help. Our goal is to help you help the planet, while still providing high quality products to your customers and their end users, while also complying with local plastics ordinances. Our compostable product lines help to provide the experiences your customers expect from their single-use problems without causing any harm to the planet.
Plastic is bad. We all know it, we’ve all heard it, and we’ve all had the 3 R’s jammed into our head for years now: reduce, reuse, recycle. But we think a 4th R is much more important: rethink. Are single-use products really the problem? Or is the problem that we chose to make them out of a material that was originally designed to last hundreds of years? New technology has allowed us to produce the products we know and love from materials that are much more environmentally friendly. At UrthPact, one of our main goals is to help educate the world on compostable bioplastics, and the potential that these materials have for the future of the single-use products industry. When you partner with us to provide compostables to your customers, you don’t just get a manufacturing partner; you also get an educational partner. We’ll provide you with a wealth of knowledge and resources to help explain and communicate to your customers the positive choices you’re making for the planet, and how that directly reflects back to them. Studies show that consumers are actively changing their buying preferences and habits based on the sustainability of a business, and therefore communicating your sustainable choices is a key piece of your success.
On top of providing a wide range of resources for you to utilize with your customers, we also help businesses to build a more sustainable brand image. We’ve been in this field a long time, and our team has lots of experience in creating a seamless brand experience on our products. Because we are 100% customizable, you can communicate your brand’s message through custom packaging, implementation of brand colors, and everything in between. And we’ll be there to advise you the entire way. We believe in a win, win, win, win situation: when your customers win, you win, we win, AND the planet wins. We truly believe in the benefits and quality of products, and we want our partners to be able to take them and make them their own. That’s what sets us apart from the competition and allows us to reach a wider customer base. You’ve already built your brand, now let us help you make it more sustainable.
UrthPact also helps our partners to achieve a variety of sustainability goals. Like we said before: consumers are actively choosing more sustainable businesses to shop from, or to eat at. They’re also willing to spend more money if they know the product or service they are getting in return is sustainable or planet-friendly. Having sustainability goals in place and actively working to achieve them is a great way to make your businesses more planet-friendly in the eyes of consumers. Implementing compostable products reduces waste, lowers overall carbon footprint, and gives back to the environment when they’re disposed of. And, they’ll satisfy your customers’ needs as well. They won’t turn to mush in a smoothie, cause your coffee to be weaker, or snap in half when you try to cut a burger in half. They’ll provide all of the functionality that your customers expect but still push you closer to your sustainability goals than anything made of plastic would.
At UrthPact, we want to see our partners succeed. When our partners win, we win, and the planet wins. We are behind you 100% of the way, whether it’s assisting with sustainability messaging and marketing, providing educational resources, or reaching sustainability goals. Our long-term goal is to keep 25 billion pieces of plastic from reaching oceans and landfills. And we can’t reach that goal without all of our incredible partners, current and future. So to answer the simple question: what can UrthPact do for you? We can help you save the world from plastic.
Apr 29, 2022
Have you ever spotted a product on a grocery store shelf claiming to be “compostable,” “biodegradable,” or “eco-friendly,” and wondered how that could possibly be true? How can single-use disposable products traditionally made from plastic become compostable or biodegradable? Well, it’s not impossible. Bioplastics have provided us with a material that can be molded into single-use products that function like plastic but can be broken down to usable compost. The challenge is identifying which of those “eco-friendly” products are ACTUALLY compostable. When the green revolution began back in the 1980’s, companies realized that consumers were willing to spend more money with businesses that had sustainable practices or provided eco-friendly products. This led to the birth of greenwashing: conveying a false impression or providing misleading information about how a company’s products are more environmentally sound.
Greenwashing began as businesses took advantage of consumers’ lack of knowledge around sustainable business practices and products. In order to protect consumers, regulations were put in place to ensure claims of sustainability were accurate claims of sustainability. The FTC Green Guides outline these rules for businesses, and the claims they are allowed to make surrounding sustainable products and practices. One of the main points of the Green Guides is that scientific testing is required to back up any claims of sustainability, and that generic phrases like “eco-friendly” should generally be avoided because they are often misleading. One of the best ways to provide a solid and legal claim that is also backed by strong science and a third party evaluation is to look for compostability certifications on compostable products.
Compostability certifications come from 3 main certifying bodies: TUV Austria, BPI (the Biodegradable Products Institute), and CMA (the Compost-Manufacturing Alliance). If you find logos from any of these 3 organizations on a sustainable product, you can rest assured knowing that any claims of sustainability, compostability, or biodegradability are backed by science and 100% true. There’s no greenwashing when there are certifications involved. This comes in handy when you’re selling products in multiple different states. The Green Guides are a federal requirement, but some states (like California for example) have tighter greenwashing regulations than just the Green Guides. Certifications ensure that you are compliant with greenwashing regulations no matter where the product is sold. You may have to be a bit more careful with the wording of your claims (for example, the word “biodegradable” is no longer allowed to be used in claims in California because it is too often used in a misleading way), but overall, your products, business, and customers will be covered when your products are certified.
Greenwashing is a fickle concept. With different regulations in different areas, and now with more and more states and cities also bringing in single-use plastics bans, there’s A LOT to worry about when you’re marketing a sustainable product. But certifications provide a simple solution. While acquiring them does require some time and monetary investment, they’ll serve you well in the long run in protecting your business and your customers. So remember: buy and sell certified!
