India is the world’s biggest consumer of disposable cutlery, throwing away 120 billion items every year. That’s a huge amount of non-biodegradable plastic ending up in landfill. So Narayana Peesapaty devised a solution: edible cutlery. Eat your takeaway, and then eat the spoon.
You can find out more about Bakeys here.
The Earthbound Report 
What I love about Bakeys is that he’s a groundwater researcher – he set this business up so that farmers would make just as much revenue growing less water-intensive millet, instead of paddy rice. Win for water, win for climate, win for waste.