{"id":7086,"date":"2017-11-28T06:27:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T06:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7086"},"modified":"2017-11-28T06:27:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T06:27:02","slug":"eating-cups-made-of-seaweed-indonesian-startup-markets-edible-containers-to-fight-plastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/eating-cups-made-of-seaweed-indonesian-startup-markets-edible-containers-to-fight-plastic-pollution.html","title":{"rendered":"Eating Cups made of Seaweed? Indonesian Startup Markets Edible Containers to Fight Plastic Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic pollution has become such a problem in Indonesia that it inspired one entrepreneur to develop and sell edible containers made of seaweed, thus hoping to combat the worsening accumulation of plastic trash in the Asian nation. Evoware, the manufacturers of seaweed containers and packaging, is hoping to put a dent in the country\u2019s plastic pollution problem and provide a product that is not only healthy for the customer but for the Indonesian environment as well.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7087 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/evoware-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/evoware-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/evoware-45x45.png 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tjan sells ice cream in cups\u00a0made from edible seaweed, an alternative to packaging that would normally be cast off as trash that can instead be eaten by the customer. The environmentally friendly, biodegradable containers come in a variety of flavors that include peppermint and green tea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/4646852\/eating-cups-made-of-seaweed-indonesian-start-up-markets-edible-containers-to-fight-plastic-pollution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plastic pollution has become such a problem in Indonesia that it inspired one entrepreneur to develop and sell edible containers made of seaweed, thus hoping to combat the worsening accumulation of plastic trash in the Asian nation. Evoware, the manufacturers of seaweed containers and packaging, is hoping to put a dent in the country\u2019s plastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[578,59],"tags":[554,568],"class_list":["post-7086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-launches","category-seaweed","tag-algae-products","tag-seaweed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7088,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7086\/revisions\/7088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}