Listen up my eco-friendly friends…do you struggle with buying and using paper or plastic ware? I know I do. When we have parties or people over, we try to avoid being wasteful. I feel like I do a good job with a recycling bin, and I always am digging though the trash pulling out paper and plastic products that can be recycled. It drives me nuts that people throw EVERYTHING away, including items that can be recycled!

Well I found out about a product called Leafware® that may solve this dilemma.  It’s true sustainable dinnerware as the tag line says. Leafware® is dinnerware, made out of fallen palm leaves! HOW COOL iS THAT!? What the company does is they take fallen palm leaves and make an alternative to paper plates and plastic forks. Here’s how they best explain their company:
“Leafware® is driven to making our world greener and making it safe for our children for many generations to come. We are constantly searching for new ways to find ancient solutions for modern world focused with attention on the ecologically safe and sustainable products. Many ancient communities in Asia have been using green products for centuries. They use leaves of specific trees and vines, sewn together with bits of stem and fashioned into ‘disposable’, ‘versatile’ plates and bowls. This natural crockery easily decomposes with out creating pollution or solid waste problems! Such use of leaves inspired Leafware to produce disposable, environment-friendly dinnerware, and dining accessories designed for contemporary use”.

They have an array of items, bowls, plates even utensils!

Doesn’t this sound cool!? SO I tried out Leafware® for myself to see how well it held up. We decided to make pasta and really put the product to the test.

The results were great!  The plates and bowls held up better then paper plates. AND they look super cool.  It was seriously hard to throw them away…I wanted to use them again and again.  But I felt ok with throwing them away because they breakdown, they’re leaves!

So if you’re planning an event and you want to avoid paper plates, try out Leafware!  This would be awesome for an outdoor wedding where you don’t want to use glass or paper.  They really do look nice, and they’re eco friendly!  Click the banner below to check out their line of products!