In olden days the people used to eat in banana leafs, or tadpattals ( small leafs sewn together) and other leafs made out of leafs or bamboo stems, but all of those things were biodegradable and did not harm the environment. Urbanisation and development made us look to things like plastic and thermocol. Now that we have awareness of the damage to the environment cause by plastic and thermocol, we need to discard these things and go back to plates made our of natural leafs etc.

Also studies have shown that whenever we eat in plastic containers / plates, we also ingest micro plastic which is not good for our health, even discarding plastic in land fill sites, or burning plastic ends up polluting the environment, and is not healthy for the environment as well as wild life and marine life.

So for our health as well as a healthy environment, areca plates are the best alternative for plastic