The average plastic fork or spoon might have a usable life of 10 minutes while you’re eating lunch–or even less, if you get a set of unwanted cutlery with your takeout and end up tossing it ...

Why carrying your own fork and spoon helps solve the plastic crisis. We throw away billions of utensils every year, and many of them end up in the environment.

The sporf is an unsolvable design problem. Think about it: It’s a tool with three jobs—it's a fork, a spoon and a knife—but isn't equipped to do any of them well. The utensil was pretty much ...