What is melamine and is it dirty or green?
Melamine is a petroleum byproduct, and that’s a dirty bunch of stuff. BUT, making things out of melamine insures that even the slough off petroleum waste is used, and that’s kind of a good thing. As a maker of porcelain and plasticware, both products cause pollution in their creation . Porcelain requires a constant draw of electricity to keep the coal-fired kilns going for a week at a time; melamine uses less power in the long run but at its core uses a plastic that hasn’t proven easy to recycle. At the 1963 World’s Fair, Walter D. Teague showed a melamine recycling machine — boy, would we love to have one of those at our Distribution Center!
