Making the switch to eco-friendly plates is a major way to reduce your carbon footprint. By doing this, you minimize greenhouse gas emissions. But not all the eco-friendly plates are sustainable. Eco-friendly is a term used to describe something that is not dangerous to the environment. Therefore, eco-friendly plates are plates that do not leave a negative impact on the environment. Whether they break down quickly, can be recycled easily or can be composted. So eco-friendly plates and tableware are indeed better than disposable plastic and paper plates. But we want to be sustainable, not just eco-friendly with the plates we use. Areca leaf sustainable plates are a great solution.
Sustainability is the ability to exist and develop without depleting natural resources for the future. The United Nations defined sustainable development, as development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Let’s see how to be sustainable and not just eco-friendly.
Reduce the ocean pollution
When we use Areca leaf sustainable plates we reduce pollution in our oceans. Every year, our oceans are polluted with 18 billion pounds of single use plastics that’s equal to 5 grocery bags of plastic trash for every foot of coastline in the world. Areca leaf sustainable plates do not end in our oceans but in your local compost bin. Within a few weeks they will completely compost and enrich your compost quality.
Reduce landfill waste
When composting Areca leaf plates, you automatically reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills every year. Of the 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic that has ever been produced, a whopping 79% is accumulating in landfills. If we continue in this way, there will be 12 billion metric tons of plastic in landfills by 2050. To put this in perspective, that’s like 35,000 Empire state buildings.
Absolutely no risk of toxic chemicals
By using Areca leaf sustainable plates we eliminate the risk of having toxic chemicals. When we microwave plastic or Styrofoam, we run the risk of releasing toxins and ingesting them. Areca leaf plates are 100% natural and of course free of chemicals or any other bond agents, meaning that you can microwave them without releasing chemicals. In addition, Areca leaf products do not obviously release chemicals or gasses into the environment unlike after plastic plates are disposed of.
Eco-friendly, compostable and sustainable
Areca leaf plates and products are 100% natural and therefore 100% compostable. They are also carbon rich so they even enrich your compost quality. Your nutrient rich humus can be used in your garden. So not only that composting is good for the environment by capturing carbon, it also saves waste from being sent to landfills.
So much more durability
Areca leaf sustainable plates holds up way better with heavy, hot and greasy foods. Plastic plates can catch grease and cause them to become flimsy, which makes for quite the mess. Areca leaf plates can even be used with steak knives and metal utensils, which is more than you can say for plastic or Styrofoam plates,
Making the switch to Areca leaf plates has so many environmental advantages that you might think that they are expensive. The fact is that, Areca leaf plates can be just as affordable as plastic or paper plates, depending on which one you choose. A lot of stores are expanding their inventory to include Areca leaf plates and products. For private consumers online is for the most part the best place to find them.
Let’s finalize
Our Earth is facing the use of single-use plastic and Styrofoam for too long now. The effects of pollution, overflowing landfills, toxic chemicals, and greenhouse gas emissions has “helped” climate change and irreversibly changed our environment. The way forward is to slow climate change, by making the switch to eco-friendly products, particularly eco-friendly tableware. Areca leaf plates are not only eco-friendly, but they’re sustainable as well. Sustainability means everything from their production to the product itself is sustainable, renewable, uses little energy, and gives off little to no pollution and greenhouse gasses. You’ll do your part for the Earth, saving money, and using unique, stylish plates when you choose Areca leaf.
Remember, an eco-friendly product is a good start. But to be better with yourself and the environment we need a sustainable product. Areca leaf plates and tableware are exactly what we need.
