whole foods salad bar container with lid

The new look in recyclable salad bar containers at Whole Foods Market

The latest salad bar containers at Whole Foods market are not only recyclable, unbleached, and made from a renewable source, they are compostable. After an informative phone conversation with a knowledgeable employee at the Whole Foods Headquarters in Austin, Texas, I found out that the new container was introduced in the stores in December, offered in addition to the plastic to-go containers, the unbleached Chinese take-out boxes, and the to-stay salad bowls. The new salad boxes are made from unbleached pulp from two different renewable sources. One is sugarcane fiber, which is the (normally discarded) by-product of the sugar cane crop. The other is bull rush cattails which grow in the wild and are harvested annually. The crops from which the pulp is harvested contain no chemicals or fertilizers.

Instead of putting my salad in them, I took two home to photograph. I am not sure what I will do with them yet, but they are such a pleasing design, color and material, I am sure I will come up with something.

Who says only kids at Christmas like the box better than the toy that comes inside.

Some alternate uses for the new Whole Foods salad bar container:
you could store your winter hats

or your pens

or your tiny gold pine cone collection...
As I said, I don't know what I will do with them yet, but I like them.
Perhaps I'll make a salad today.