EarthKare™ Premiers EarthKare Kup™ at the 2010 Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo

Aug. 12, 2010 - PRLog -- LOS ANGELES, Calif. – EarthKare™ Packaging Innovations Co. announces the availability of the EarthKare Kup™, a hot and cold disposable beverage container that can replace today’s beverage cup and lid combination with a single integrated container.  The Kup’s revolutionary design, in which both the cup and the lid are a single unit, represents the first significant change in the way beverages are served in single-use disposable cups in over a century.  Locking securely into place, the lid also easily opens for customers to add the ingredients that make their beverages uniquely their own.

The EarthKare Kup is part of a line of “green” foodservice products that are engineered to withstand the rigors of restaurant take-out service, while being priced comparably to similar petroleum-based products.  EarthKare enables virtually any culinary enterprise to make ‘green’ a promise to the planet - and to the business’ bottom-line.

According to data from the EPA, disposable, petroleum-based foodservice items make up 10.5% of our nation’s waste by weight and can take up to 10,000 years to dissolve.  Research indicates that in 2010, Americans will use more than 50 billion hot and cold beverage cups. Glenn Tobias, president and CEO of EarthKare put it this way, saying “This trend is environmentally unsustainable and everyone in the industry who cares about the planet should be focused on minimizing the use of environmentally harmful base materials.”

Founded in 2009, EarthKare™ Packaging Innovations, Co. manufactures and distributes earth-friendly packaging products for the food services industry.  With locations across the United States, the company specializes in designing and developing innovative packaging products that reduce the food industry’s carbon footprint, and provide consumers with innovative and economically priced green product options.  

EarthKare is located in Booth 1438 and featured in the New Exhibitor Pavilion at the 2010 Western Foodservice and Hospitality Expo in Los Angeles, California.  The 2010 WFHE takes place August 14 through 16, 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center.

More information about the company is available online at http://www.earthkare.com.
To see the hot and cold EarthKare Kups demonstrated by the company CEO, visit  http://www.youtube.com/earthkare#p/a/u/0/dlR4b01Aytw

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EarthKare was founded in 2009 to provide innovative and economically-priced biodegradable and compostable food service products manufactured with sustainable materials. EarthKare is also the designer and developer of the EarthKare Kup, which represents the first revolutionary change to the disposable cup design in over 100 years.