This company is turning avocado pits into biodegradable cutlery🥑

During the last decade, the popularity of avocados has undoubtedly grown in North America. But behind the cheery facade of eminently Instagrammable specimens of avocado toast, there are a lot of environmental impacts associated with growing these green fruits, like the draining of water supplies in Chile, and even causing avocado shortages in places where they are locally grown but exported out.

On the other side of this equation is the question of what to do with the seeds once the avocados have been used? After all, we can’t all be carving whimsical works of art from them. Mexico-based company Biofase has another idea: transforming discarded avocado seeds into biodegradable cutlery.

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