The green plate above is the final product designed and produced by the LeafRepublic team. It is not only waterproof and oil-proof, but also a disposable tableware that can be completely degraded naturally and can be re-turned into natural fertilizer. It is made without any type of glue or paint and other chemicals, and it can be said to be completely natural. However, to make this kind of tableware that may change the world, its invention process is not as smooth and beautiful as imagined!

With the development of society and economy, our demand for plastic is increasing day by day, and plastic products are emerging in an endless stream, such as plastic cups, plastic mobile phone cases, plastic chairs, plastic nets for fishing, etc., then the plastic we produce Garbage, more than 1 billion tons of plastic waste is scattered into the natural environment every year, among which there are a large number of disposable tableware made of paper or plastic, and the accumulation of plastic waste every year has exceeded one Mount Everest, And it takes at least 730,000 days for these wastes to be completely degraded in nature.

The founder, Pedram, felt that it was time to do something to change this already terrible world. So he thought, there are so many fallen leaves in the forest, why do you have to cut down the trees? Can you use these fallen leaves to do something? Thinking of this, he immediately took action. He gathered some of his friends, but he didn't expect his idea to get a hit with friends, and there were designers, engineers, etc., so he did what he said. They gathered in his living room, and the first heat press designed to make leaf cutlery 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 does not use glue, oil, glue or other chemical materials, its raw materials are Only leaves. Moreover, the disposable plastic lunch box will stay in nature for 730,000 days to be dissolved after being discarded, but the disposable tableware made of this kind of leaves can be decomposed naturally and completely in 28 days, and become natural nutrients again.

According to the relevant media reports of the plastic 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 finished products everywhere. , because their concept is that they don't need to cut down any trees at all, and only need to use fallen leaves to make disposable tableware. Such a great design and environmental protection concept make them soft to win the prize.