Our Mission

World Centric was founded in 2004 with a mission to reduce economic injustice and environmental degradation through education, community networks, and sustainable enterprises. Over the years, what we do has changed, but our mission still remains the same.

Our History

World Centric was founded in 2004 to raise awareness of large scale humanitarian and environmental issues and to promote sustainable alternatives to every day consumption choices. In 2004, World Centric hosted award winning documentaries and speakers on environmental, social, human rights, peace issues, offered courses on sustainability, simple living and globalization and worked on a Conscious Living guide. Since there was no funding and as well in order to be a self-sustaining organization, without having to ask for donations, grants or fund raise, World Centric started to sell Fair Trade Products and compostable products in beginning of 2005. World Centric continued to host films/speaker series and offer courses alongside selling of the products and registered as a taxable California Non-Profit Corporation in September 2005, with the intention of filing for a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status in 2006. By summer of 2006, majority of World Centric's time and resources were devoted to managing the organically growing sales of Fair Trade and compostable products. According to lawyers, the sales of products did not constitute a non-profit activity and advised that the application for 501(c)(3) status would not be granted by the IRS. World Centric never did file for a tax-exempt status and continued on as a taxable non-profit with almost all resources and time going towards supporting the sales of compostable products. 

World Centric as of March 2009, converted from a taxable non-profit to to for-profit as the sales of the compostable products had become the main activity. We now think of World Centric as a for-profit social enterprise, where in addition to our sustainable compostable products, we want to work towards making World Centric a model of how sustainable enterprises should be run. In 2009, for example we offset all our carbon emissions, and gave 25% of our profits before taxes to grass root social and environmental organizations, and hope to move towards giving 100% of our profits. Our overall mission, vision and values stay the same since our founding - to make a difference and create a more just and sustainable world. 

Our Business

World Centric provides high quality compostable food service disposables and food packaging products for use in schools, corporate cafeterias, restaurants, hospitals, parties etc. Our products are made annually renewable resources like corn, sugarcane, and wheat straw fiber. Sugar cane and wheat straw fiber are also discarded by-products of the agriculture industry and we are using this discarded fiber to make sustainable alternatives to plastics and styrofoam.