plasticspossible | Making Cakes and Recycling Plastics With Celebrity Chef Duff Goldman @plasticspossible | Uploaded June 2014 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Get Duff's Butter Confetti Cake recipe by clicking on a link in this article: plasticsmakeitpossible.com/plastics-at-home/food/prep-storage/duffs-kitchen/guest-blog-post-plastics-and-sustainability-in-the-kitchen
Celebrity chef and TV personality Duff Goldman demonstrates how to apply fondant icing to a cake, while recycling everyday plastic food packaging. He also showcases some durable, stylish cooking tools that can be made with the plastics we recycle.
Plastics Make it Possible® teamed up with Duff to create several ""Duff's Kitchen"" videos, in which he shows how plastics make it easy to help the environment, by reducing food- and packaging-waste in the kitchen.
Everything we do — even making a cake — has an impact on the environment. Here are some observations from Duff's video:
• We can lighten our footprint on the environment by choosing the right packaging, recycling, and using recycled products in the kitchen.
• Many ingredients you need to make a cake are packed in lightweight plastics, which deliver more goods with significantly less waste, energy use, and global-warming potential. Without plastics:
- Our energy use would increase by 80 percent, the amount of energy used by 91 oil supertankers.
- Our global warming potential would increase by 130 percent, the equivalent of adding 15.7 million more cars to our roads.
• After use, we can recycle all of these lightweight packages: Bottles and caps, containers and lids.
- Make sure you know what’s collected for recycling where you live, and recycle everything you can.
• Plastic bags and wraps are recyclable too. You can take zipper bags, wraps around cases of water bottles, bread bags, produce bags, grocery bags, dry cleaning bags, back to large grocery or retail stores that collect them for recycling.
• Once recycled, plastic packaging becomes a resource to make all sorts of new products, from fabrics for clothing to plastic lumber to new packaging — and some of it comes right back into the kitchen as cooking tools.
• In some parts of the country, the energy from plastics that aren’t recycled is recovered to produce electricity for the community.
Get Duff's Butter Confetti Cake recipe by clicking on a link in this article: plasticsmakeitpossible.com/plastics-at-home/food/prep-storage/duffs-kitchen/guest-blog-post-plastics-and-sustainability-in-the-kitchen
Celebrity chef and TV personality Duff Goldman demonstrates how to apply fondant icing to a cake, while recycling everyday plastic food packaging. He also showcases some durable, stylish cooking tools that can be made with the plastics we recycle.
Plastics Make it Possible® teamed up with Duff to create several ""Duff's Kitchen"" videos, in which he shows how plastics make it easy to help the environment, by reducing food- and packaging-waste in the kitchen.
Everything we do — even making a cake — has an impact on the environment. Here are some observations from Duff's video:
• We can lighten our footprint on the environment by choosing the right packaging, recycling, and using recycled products in the kitchen.
• Many ingredients you need to make a cake are packed in lightweight plastics, which deliver more goods with significantly less waste, energy use, and global-warming potential. Without plastics:
- Our energy use would increase by 80 percent, the amount of energy used by 91 oil supertankers.
- Our global warming potential would increase by 130 percent, the equivalent of adding 15.7 million more cars to our roads.
• After use, we can recycle all of these lightweight packages: Bottles and caps, containers and lids.
- Make sure you know what’s collected for recycling where you live, and recycle everything you can.
• Plastic bags and wraps are recyclable too. You can take zipper bags, wraps around cases of water bottles, bread bags, produce bags, grocery bags, dry cleaning bags, back to large grocery or retail stores that collect them for recycling.
• Once recycled, plastic packaging becomes a resource to make all sorts of new products, from fabrics for clothing to plastic lumber to new packaging — and some of it comes right back into the kitchen as cooking tools.
• In some parts of the country, the energy from plastics that aren’t recycled is recovered to produce electricity for the community.
