| Local vendors prefer sugar, corn to plastic |
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North Tahoe brothers Chris and Erik Taylor are trying to help save the world — or at least Tahoe-Truckee — from plastics. Young entrepreneurs Chris, 22, and Erik, 27, in April started Nalca Networks — a business selling biodegradable and compostable products made of sugar cane and corn plastic to local restaurants. “The idea was my brother’s ... to do something good for the environment,” said Chris Taylor. Originally from Vermont, the Tahoma-based Taylor brothers were inspired to not only work for themselves but to become leaders in the future of bio-plastics. |
| Source: | nevadaappeal.com |
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