The green plate above is the final product designed and produced by the LeafRepublic team. It is not only waterproof and oil-proof, but it is also a disposable tableware that can be completely degraded and turned into natural fertilizer again. However, to make this potentially world-changing tableware, the process of its invention is not as smooth and beautiful as imagined!

  Along with the development of social economy, our demand for plastic is increasing day by day, plastic products are also emerging, such as plastic cups, plastic phone cases, plastic chairs, fishing with plastic nets, etc., then we produce plastic waste, every year there are more than 1 billion tons of plastic waste scattered into the natural environment, and there are a large number of paper or plastic disposable tableware. And the annual accumulation of plastic waste has exceeded a Mount Everest, and these garbage to be completely degraded in nature, it will take at least 730000 days.

 The founder, Pedram, thought it was time to do something to change the world for the better. So he thought, "There are so many leaves in the forest, why do we have to cut down the trees, can we do something with the leaves? Thinking of this, he immediately took action. He gathered some of his friends, and to his surprise, his idea was met with immediate agreement, and designers, engineers, and so on, so they did. They gathered in his living room, and the first heat press designed to make leaf tableware was born.

  In the process of making tableware, in addition to not harming and polluting the natural environment, its finished product is completely natural, and the whole process is not to use glue, oil, glue or other chemical materials, it is only the raw material of the leaves. And disposable plastic lunch boxes will be left in nature after being disposed of 730000 days to be dissolved, but this kind of disposable tableware made of leaves can be decomposed by nature in only 28 days, and turn back to natural nutrients.

According to the media reports of the relevant plastics network, Pedram's team won a lot of awards, and they also raised the first money, so they designed a semi-automatic thermoforming machine, with the production of finished products around the exhibition competition, because their concept is completely without cutting any tree, as long as the leaves can be used to produce disposable tableware, such an awesome design and The concept of environmental protection makes them get the prize.