Non-recycled waste is filling our landfills and contaminating the earth and its wildlife populations. Plastic utensils have cancerous properties to begin with that can end up in people?s food in small amounts. The average time for one plastic bottle to decompose is 450 years.

So one of the Indian Narayana Peesapaty , the founder snd owner of Bakeys created edible spoons in because he is fed up with plastic waste.

India is in the region of South Asia where it is culturally common to eat traditional meals with your hands, even among the wealthy who can trace the practice back to Ayurvedic teaching—and yet every year Indians use 120 billion pieces of plastic cutlery.

Waste production is particularly problematic in large cities whose economic development precedes waste management infrastructure. 

The edible cutlery is a bio-degradable option that has a shelf life of three years and decomposes within four-five days if not used. They even come in three different flavors to suit the food that they are served with: plain, sweet, or spicy.

?The cutlery is tasty, fun, nutritious, and environmentally friendly? says Peesapaty, who also says he became motivated realizing people want to do the right thing, they just don?t know how. He makes the utensils by blending millet, rice, and wheat flours that are then baked dry.

Peesapaty primarily uses millet because it requires 60 times less water to cultivate. He cites that 500 liters of water is needed to produce just one kilo of rice. The International Fund for Agricultural Development estimates rather that around 1000- 3000 liters of water produces a single grain of rice.

This is perfect for replacing the plastic cutlery which effects the environment alot .