Long live the spork (just not that long)

Here comes the biodegradable fork
Scheer, CEO of Santa Monica, Calif.-based Cereplast, says his company has come up with a way to produce things like forks, knives, cups, food packages and other items out of plastic derived from cornstarch, rather than from petroleum-based compounds.

I’ll admit, this is slightly better than my “eatable-fork-made-from-unused-fortune-cookies” idea.