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Pic: Plastic Wrapped Wooden Spoons

Pic: Plastic Wrapped Wooden Spoons

By Piers Fawkes on July 1, 2009

When we saw these ‘wooden utensils’ in Anthropologie on 5th Avenue in New York recently, we wondered if the retailer was engaging in a bit of greenwashing. Sure, the bundle of eight knives, forks and spoons may be made from sustainably grown birch but is it really “sustainable” when they wrap it all in non-biodegrable plastic.

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Piers Fawkes is the founder and editor-in-chief of PSFK, a daily news site that acts as the go-to source of new ideas and inspiration.

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TOPICS:	Environmental / Green, Fashion, Home & Garden, Retail
TAGS:	antrhopologie, Environmental / Green, Fashion, greenwashing, Retail

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