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How to distinguish wheat straw tableware and ordinary plastic tableware

📅 2020/8/17 👁 4213 views 🏷 New Products & Factory Updates
How to distinguish wheat straw tableware and ordinary plastic tableware

How to distinguish wheat straw tableware and ordinary plastic tableware

How to identify:

1. Hardness: Tableware made of wheat straw is harder, hard in texture, not easy to deform, and can be recycled many times. Tableware made of ordinary plastics has low hardness and soft texture. The user will deform with a little force, and the number of times of use is limited.


2. Heating: Tableware made of ordinary plastic burns to produce unpleasant gas. This gas is toxic and harmful to the human body. High temperature environments can also cause plastics to decompose toxic components. Wheat straw fiber is a natural ingredient, does not contain harmful substances, and will not produce toxins in high temperature environments.

3. Appearance: The tableware made of wheat straw is meticulous in workmanship, very beautiful, and generally brown. Tableware made of ordinary plastic is generally white in rough workmanship.


4. Smell the taste, put the two kinds of tableware in bai into a container with boiling water. Generally, the wheat straw made of wheat straw does not have a pungent odor, and there will be a faint smell of plants, even if the heat is repeated many times. Water cleaning and disinfection also has no pungent plastic smell.

5. Burn it. Generally, tableware made of pure plastic materials will be very pungent and unpleasant after being burned, and wheat straw can also be burned, but the taste is not so unpleasant.

6. Beat hard. Generally, pure plastic tableware is very tough and strong. But wheat stalk materials are not so tough, and they can be easily broken under strong beating.

7. Utilization rate. Utilization rate of tableware made of real pure straw is very low, and some are even disposable. At present, the straw tableware that is repeatedly used on the market is made by adding some stereotyped chemical additives to the straw and physically stereotyped.

  Wheat straw piles are not easy to handle in the field. Burning will pollute the environment. If they can be processed into products, it will not only realize resource utilization, but also reduce environmental pollution. The production technology of wheat straw tableware is that piles of wheat straw are shredded, decomposed, pulped, shaped, trimmed and other processes are made into stacks of various disposable lunch boxes.

  The main components of wheat straw are cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, polyuronic acid, protein and minerals. Among them, the content of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin is as high as 35% to 40%. The active ingredients are cellulose and hemicellulose.

Features of wheat straw tableware:

1. High temperature resistance, low cost, degradable, good toughness, and no heavy metals, it is a good environmentally friendly product.

2. Wheat straw or starch and other raw materials, if you want to make tableware directly, you need to add some fusion agents, most of the fusion agents are PP (polypropylene) or PET (, so that the product can be formed after adding. Some substances will be added to ensure the normal use of the product.

3. The level of additives must be food grade as required by the state.


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