{"id":527317,"date":"2026-03-08T19:22:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527317\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:22:35","slug":"tasmanian-sushi-shop-helps-unveil-compostable-soy-sauce-containers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/527317\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasmanian sushi shop helps unveil compostable soy sauce containers"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Tasmanian sushi shop owner has helped launch an environmentally friendly way for customers to take away soy sauce with purchased sushi.<\/p>\n

Sush co-owner David Painter unveiled Angus Ware\u2019s \u201cHoly Carp\u201d product at Franklin Wharf in Hobart on Friday.<\/p>\n

Ware, who group up in Hobart, claims this is the world\u2019s first home compostable soy sauce dispenser.<\/p>\n

The single-use dispenser is made from plant pulp and made into a paper-like product to hold the soy sauce and is aimed at replacing the plastic \u201csoy fish\u201d containers that accompany takeaway sushi across Australia.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sugar cane waste creates the compostable alternative to plastic soy containers<\/p>\n

Painter\u2019s own environmental awakening dates back to 1999 during a trip to Tasmania.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went on a walk to the South West Cape and on the beach there were literally millions of plastic pebbles, it was like millions of Lego pieces in psychedelic colours,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\"\"Sush owner David Painter said visiting Tasmania was his turning point on trying to limit waste<\/p>\n

\u201cI came back two days later with a camera and the beach was empty \u2013 they had all been swept back into the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ware said he was struck with the irony of a plastic fish ending up in the ocean and causing harm and decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it goes into the ocean it harms marine life and then can end up in our bodies as micro-plastics,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ware\u2019s eureka moment came in 2020 while working in Sydney, where he noticed countless discarded soy fish containers littering streets and gutters.<\/p>\n

\"\"Angus Ware\u2019s invention targets replacing the plastic soy fish containers<\/p>\n

\u201cYou would see them on the ground or in the cracks between paving stones, always standing out with their distinctive red lid,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, it was crazy and ironic that the plastic fish would end up in Sydney Harbour.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Holy Carp container holds 8ml of soy sauce and was developed with Sydney design studio Vert Design.<\/p>\n

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