Palouse Fiber Packaging (PFP), a Washington State-based startup spearheading the research, development and production of a variety of low-impact alternative fiber packaging products, recently announced the public availability of their new 4-cup carriers, made using wheat straw pulp.

The wheat-based carriers are a new product not only for PFP but also for the broader alternative fiber industry. Rather than relying on the waning global supplies of milled wood or post-consumer recycled material (the first of which is often deceptively marketed as being “greener” than foam and other plastics), the carriers will be made using fiber from harvested wheat crops, which is locally sourced and utilized as a molding medium instead of being incinerated as agricultural waste.