No more plastic to wrap your food

Say goodbye to plastic! Etee is a reusable – natural & biodegradable – way to keep food as fresh as plastic.

Developped by a canadian company, this product was created in order to fight plastic pollution and offers an alternative solutions to the daily use of plastic. By being reusable and because they’re all natural, when you’re done with these Etee Wraps, they go away – just toss them in your compost or trash and they’ll decompose like leaves.

As it preserve your food, it also reduce the exposure. Plastic releases pesky chemicals that leach into our food and our bodies. It’s causing quite a stir: “Most plastic products, from sippy cups to food wraps, can release chemicals that act like the sex hormone estrogen, according to a study in Environmental Health Perspectives.” (National Public Radio) The Etee wraps are plastic free, they preserve food – naturally – with beeswax, coniferous tree resins and essential oils all infused in an organic cotton cloth.

It also let the food breath. Many fruits and veggies release ethylene gas as they ripen and mature. If this gas isn’t allowed to escape, it will prematurely rot your food. This is what happen most of the time with plastic wrap when left too long. But the Etee wrap are made with the natural sealing properties of beeswax. They let the right stuff out – ethylene – while protecting your food at the same time.

The idea came to the company’s founders after King Tut’s tomb discovery. His tomb was uncovered in the 1920s and with it, his body. The remarkable thing was that it had been preserved for nearly 3,000 years! In 2004, a couple Scientists from the University of Bristol concluded that coniferous tree resins and beeswax were the primary ingredients in this process: “Coniferous resins, the scientists [Stephen Buckley and Richard Evershed] explain, can slow microbial degradation, whereas beeswax has antibacterial properties and serves as a sealant.” (Scientific American). They tried them to applied those same principles to food preservation… and Etee was created.