Waxed Paper: Is It Compostable?
Sometimes I read really deep into really specific things. Although I don't use wax paper at all, somehow I ended up spending a week or two emailing companies that manufacture it to ask what theirs is made of. Soybean wax or paraffin? Is the paraffin derived from vegetable oil or petroleum? Every company I heard from used paraffin derived from petroleum, not vegetable oil. Of the 7 companies I received a reply from, 5 used paraffin from petroleum and the other 2 used soybean wax (The companies that haven't answered at all are Norpak and Marcal). Of the replies I received, If You Care had a thorough explanation as to why they use soybean wax instead of petroleum. More appealing than that was that their product is chlorine and bleach…