How to Choose the Best Catering Disposables Be it India or any other part of the world, every important event in one’s life is associated with one common thing – food and party! And if you are catering to masses in a customised invitation, many a times an expensive China plate or a silver spoon isn’t a viable option for a catering product. One of the alternates to handle this situation is to use disposable catering products. However, since the disposal is to environment, need arises to go for eco-friendly items. Many companies have actually started offering environment friendly bio-degradable disposable catering products made of sustainable resources. Though Bamboo and its products like bamboo pulp, bamboo fibres, bamboo papers, etc are actually new in this domain but they are already finding a lot of space in this category. Another aspect regarding disposable cutlery is that it can be customised and there is no dearth of availability of variety of options for selection, including its colour, shape, size etc. Imagine what impact it would make on the guests if you could get the theme of the occasion printed on the cutlery or get the name of the guests engraved on it! Here are few tips you should keep in mind while shopping for the best disposable cutlery : • Firstly decide a budget. • Try local vendors apart from shopping online as it will give you more options. • Buying the disposables along with other wedding items from the store you always shop from, will surely get you some discount. Colours and designs for disposables: Bone china plates were always used for weddings and other similar occasions. That was when disposables were not so common and there was no colour available other than traditional white. But now as more and more people have started using disposables, a need has arisen of more colours. And nowadays these disposables are available in a wide variety of colours and designs. Not only this, with the help of modern manufacturing methods, you can get any design or even a photograph printed on it! Now people are getting more particular about selecting good disposables for weddings. So it is very important to choose the right colour and the traditional ones found in china plates are also a good option. If you like to give only hint or shades of colours then it can be easily done on plain white plates. Why to use eco-friendly disposables? The plastic disposables usually used are convenient but they are non-biodegradable. Even paper cups and plates are made up of valuable natural resources. Therefore it is best to use these eco-friendly disposables as they use recycled and renewable raw materials such as plant extracts. Even the plastic disposables are now made of plant extracts thus making it recyclable and environment friendly. So following are the reasons why we should use eco-friendly disposables over others: • Carbon content is low. • Impact on environment is low as more recycled and renewable products are used. • Waste is very low or negligible as either it is reused or becomes compost. In today’s world, wherein the ecological balance is getting disturbed at an alarming rate, the more we switch to these compostable items the more we are saving our environment.