Catering Expert Kate Gould and her spork KISS case
Kate Gould is a catering expert and designed some very unique reusable cutlery that hopefully will help to solve the issue of throwaway single use cutlery and its effect upon our environment.
With a near future ban on single cutlery due to come into effect some time 2023, a product called the KISS case has been developed, and about to begin production in Newhaven.
KEG Catering Consultant Kate Gould constructively used her time in lockdown during the covid pandemic to develop the new tool. The hope is that it can have a profound impact upon reducing the amount of disposable cutlery that is thrown away every year which harms our environment.
Spork KISS and bamboo
KISS stands for Keep It Safe and Sustainable which is a very fitting name indeed. The product comes in a nifty reusable case which contains a spork that is combined spoon and fork utensil and is made from polypropylene plastics, which is durable and 100% recyclable.
She started developing the special cutlery case to be fully leakproof and dishwasher safe allowing people to safely and cleanly carry their cutlery with them at all time.
On average every one of us will usually use around 18 single use plastic plates, and over 35 single use plastic cutlery items every year, according to recorded government research.
Kate also stated that bamboo cutlery options which are thought to be much more sustainable than plastics, are in actual fact also wasteful. More often than not, it goes into general waste bags and off to landfill.
It’s not really as sustainable as people are led to believe, not least because bamboo is grown and transported from tropical climates. It makes no sense to go to the effort of planting all these trees globally only to then cut them down and turn them into knives and forks.
Kate hopes her product will become mainstream, and will eventually be used just as much as reusable flasks, coffee cups and water bottles. Finally, closing the sustainability case for her new product, she elaborated.
She invented something that thinks is really special and very practical, but she also wants this to be part of something bigger to change people’s attitudes.
According to her, we are damaging this planet and we all need to do something and start clawing back our impact. The KISS Case represents a one time purchase that, if used again and again will have a massive environmental impact by reducing plastic waste.
Also you’ll be the only one using it, so you also know that it’s hygienically safe. The same cannot be said for cutlery that lurks in the back of staff room drawers or giant plastic pots of help-yourself disposable cutlery where everyone digs in.
Source: sussexexpress
