The 47th Southeast Alaska State Fair features six flavors of cotton candy, chain mail bikini tops and tooth bling.

Plus, fairgoers can chow down at the food booths with a clear conscience, in an environmental sense, anyway.

For the first time, all fair vendors will be using compostable service ware, made from corn, sugar cane, switchgrass and wheat fiber. It’s a change five years in the making, with encouragement from Haines Friends of Recycling, which…