If you are in the catering game, this is an eco-friendly product you might want to consider — dinner plates that you can discard with a clear conscience after use.

Whether these plates end up in the garbage heap or in the compost heap, they will eventually return to the earth. It takes 30 days for them to biodegrade in a commercial composting facility and about 90 days for them to turn to compost in a domestic composter.

You can’t really argue against the manufacturer claim that this is “a far superior alternative to styrofoam and plastic, which is non-degradable, a petroleum product and causes pollution, as well as paper plates made from cutting down trees.”

No more doing the dishes

And this is definitely a product worth considering if you find yourself baulking at the dish washing budget or the act of washing dishes itself.

Each 9″ plate is made of bagasse, the proper name for sugar cane fiber. You can buy the bleached type (white) or the natural-colored plates (pale brown). For some unspecified reason, the unbleached type is slightly smaller at 8 3/4″.

You can order these plates in packs of 20 to 1000s — depending on your requirements.

Order these nifty plates from Ecowise for $11.99 per 50 Pack. Bulk discount: $8.99 per pack for 20 packs or more.

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