Environmental Sustainability with Ecofriendly Kitchenware's

Plastics have become one of the most widespread materials; their global production has on average reached 367 million tons per annum in 2020. It became an important part in our lifestyle but growing environmental concern caused by use of plastic utensils have led to many serious issues on human being and environment. The massive production, utilization and improper disposal of plastic results in severe consequences like pollution, depletion of nonrenewable resources, harm to ecosystem and natural environment. As far as food concern, Preparation, storage and packaging of food in plastic materials which contains chemical (BPA) that may cause serious harm to human health and food system. Food has a great impact on our physical and mental health therefore cooking and packaging of food get affected by the utensil that is used. In modern era we used stainless steel, aluminum for cooking and plastic for packaging and storage of food. But these options cannot restore most of the micronutrients rather plastic adds some hazards to the food. Therefore, there is an urgent need to explore and adopt biodegradable alternative to the single use plastic utensils. This chapter aims to provide brief review of impact of plastic on environment, ecosystem and health. Through this chapter we want to reintroduce the ancient and some new cooking and packaging natural materials for kitchen utensils that makes our kitchen ecofriendly. This will help to promote good health, new employment, industrial scope and circulatory economy for sustainable growth and development of country.