{"id":66780,"date":"2019-09-24T07:23:49","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T05:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=66780"},"modified":"2019-09-19T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T12:07:58","slug":"recycling-is-not-really-an-answer-packaging-must-be-biodegradable-rhea-mazumdar-singhal-founder-ecoware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/recycling-is-not-really-an-answer-packaging-must-be-biodegradable-rhea-mazumdar-singhal-founder-ecoware\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling is not really an answer; packaging must be biodegradable: Rhea Mazumdar Singhal, founder Ecoware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to rid their homes and workplaces of single-use plastic by October 2, Rhea Mazumdar Singhal had reasons to smile. The 37-year-old is the founder of Ecoware, a biodegradable food packaging company based out of Greater Noida. It makes plates, cups and bowls from agricultural waste such as sugarcane bagasse. The company produces over 1,500 tons of biodegradable material annually. It translates into 50 million products a year, which they sell to clients ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged people to rid their homes and workplaces of single-use plastic by October 2, Rhea Mazumdar Singhal had reasons to smile. The 37-year-old is the founder of Ecoware, a biodegradable food packaging company based out of Greater Noida. It makes plates, cups and bowls from agricultural waste such as sugarcane [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[11270,7105,12388],"supplier":[16156],"class_list":["post-66780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biodegradability","tag-packaging","tag-tableware","supplier-ecoware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66780"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=66780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}