PAPSTAR Solutions GmbH – disposable tableware without waste

There are good reasons for disposable tableware. Security, for example. Cardboard cups do not break if they fall. No shards. So you can't hurt anyone. Hygiene is another important argument: If beer glasses are only briefly rinsed and reused countless times at events, this is not always hygienic. That's why it's difficult to imagine life without disposable tableware in places where a lot of people come together. On the other hand, there is no getting around the fact that a lot of disposable tableware is thrown away after a single use, which leads to a high consumption of resources and further increases the amount of waste. At PAPSTAR in Kall in the Eifel, a large provider of disposable tableware and service packaging active in many European countries, we are aware of this challenge. The company is looking for new alternatives and types of materials for its products. Renewable raw materials such as wood, sugar cane, palm leaves, corn starch and agricultural residues have long been used in production. With the founding of PAPSTAR Solutions GmbH in 2019, the North Rhine-Westphalia company also set out on the path to a circular economy. “We have set ourselves the goal of creating circular solutions for our products and making them available to our customers,” says Frank Kolvenbach, Managing Director of PAPSTAR Solutions GmbH. “We are pushing our sustainable focus and accompanying the entire life cycle of our products in order to give them a second life after use.”