Corn Construction

From my experiences in recent days, I'm beginning to think I should become a corn farmer. Ok, not really...but corn does seem to be the new ecologically-friendly answer to disposable consumer products.

• Green Mountain Coffee Roasters* is using a disposable paper coffee cup lined with a bio-plastic made from corn, rather than a petroleum-based product.
• Mountain Equipment Co-op+ has switched to "plastic" shopping bags called BioBags** made mostly from biodegradable corn starch.

*external link to greenmountaincoffee.com
+ external link to mec.ca
** external link to biobags.ca