It's made from plants. It looks and feels like conventional plastic, but at this venue it actually goes back into the ground as compost. The only thing we ask of you: drop it in the green bin.
You drop the cup, plate, cutlery, or bag.
Moved to the on-site compost machine.
Ground to a uniform size.
3-day batch with PLA-trained microbe cultures at 50–60 °C.
Picked up by Jysk Muld for full maturation.
Used as peat-replacement compost in horticulture.
Compostable plastic only matters if it actually ends up at a composting facility. Most of the time, it doesn't, it ends up in regular waste, gets burned, and the whole "compostable" label is just expensive cosmetics.
At this venue, every product from the GRØNBLÅ counter is part of a system we built end to end. There's an industrial composter on-site, a partner that comes to pick up the finished material every five days, and a horticulture buyer at the other end who uses it instead of peat.
So yes, your cup actually becomes compost. Not "in theory". Not "if everything goes right". Actually.
Conventional plastic, the kind made from oil, breaks down into microplastic. Tiny bits that stick around for centuries, end up in fish, in salt, in our food. PLA doesn't do that. In the right composting conditions, it breaks down into water, CO₂, and biomass. Same building blocks as a banana peel.
That's the point. Sustainability shouldn't require a guest manual. Drop it in the green bin and you're done.
From corn stalks to the in-vessel compost machine in the back of the venue to the bag of compost a horticulturist eventually buys, every step is documented.