Review on 🍴 World Centric 100% Compostable TPLA Spoons - 6" Take Out Cutlery (Pack of 1000) by Justin Zilinskas

Like most people, my family bought a pack of these spoons claiming they were compostable. We wanted to avoid adding plastic to landfill, and in the last few years I've tripled the size of my garden and started getting serious about composting. Unfortunately, I can't find any evidence that these paraphernalia can decompose in the compost heap of the typical avid gardener. The spoons are pretty sturdy and work better than really cheap disposable plastic spoons. That's why I'm not giving this product 1/5 stars. However, the strength of the spoon indicates its compostability. Just as it is resistant to bending or breaking, it is also resistant to biodegradation. When we first bought them last summer, we accidentally ran some of them through the dishwasher on the normal 140 minute sterilization heat setting, and when I emptied the clean dishes I was sure these spoons would dissolve in the hot water. Water. Surprisingly, they weren't soft, pliable, sticky, or partially dissolved - they were fully intact and exactly the same as several other non-degradable plastic spoons that we also washed in this shipment. I threw a few of these spoons in my kitchen waste. dumped it on the compost heap last summer and then dumped it on my compost heap in late July 2019. I made sure my compost had a good mix of grass clippings, vegetable waste, and mulched leaves, and it was more or less textbook composting. . Yesterday at the end of April 2020 I turned my compost pile ahead of the start of the season and found I had good, moist, rich compost ready to be added to my garden plots. I found a cob of corn that was more than half broken, and then a few inches deeper in the pile I found a fully intact World Centric scoop, and then a few more. I looked at the spoons and saw no sign that they had started composting. I could clearly read the trademark "World Centric" on it. Check out the photo that accompanies this review. EDIT: I can't seem to post a photo with this review - I have no idea why Revain allows photos and videos with some product reviews but not others. Maybe in a few years this broken spoon will end up in a landfill. In the Questions and Answers section, I see that the manufacturer admits that they do not compost in a home compost heap and that it requires a higher temperature and possibly shredding to actually compost than a commercial compost facility. A typical home gardener's compost heap, this item was no different from any other plastic spoon and showed no signs of having started to decompose and compost. That not only makes it a failure in my book, but also a product whose manufacturer gave an inaccurate, even hypocritical, description of the product. Bow deeply to this court.