rePAPER’s Home Composting Experiment with Paper Cups!



rePAPER’s environmentally friendly coated paper, REPA COAT, is a product certified for having a home compostable property under natural conditions. rePAPER achieved the certificate by DIN CERTCO for proving that the intermediate product is both suitable for industrial composting which requires a bit higher temperature and humidity and home composting with much more harsh conditions.

In order to see the extraordinary compostability of the product, we did a simple experiment in our front yard. Normally, a product made of unkraft paper is recognized to be environmentally friendly for its earth-like color. PLA-coated products also have been introduced to be easily composted in the soil. Would these be true? What outcome could we see if we actually plant the products in the garden? Let’s find out the result from rePAPER’s second composting experiment!



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