Comments on: VERTERRA: Dishware Made From Fallen Leaves http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/14/verterra-dishware-made-from-fallen-leaves/ Future-forward design for the world you inhabit Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:18:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: bamboobuddhahttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/14/verterra-dishware-made-from-fallen-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-114541 bamboobuddha Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:58:16 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/14/verterra-dishware-made-from-fallen-leaves/#comment-114541 I have to admit $12 for 10 plates is steep, I sell the the same product through The Whole Leaf Co. and they are are cheaper than that. Not only that we are trying to make it even more cheaper so that it can compete with the paper and plastic disposables. You have to remember even using renewable trees trees or their waste to make paper plates is still very polluting. The pulping processes take up huge amounts of energy, and then not only that they use binding products which dont necessarily breakdown. Not only that america and most of the western world still gets their paper plates from places like China because its cheap. Where we source our products they get from co-ops run in villages, the process of making them is very labour intensive and provides jobs.I am hoping to give people a cheap and greener option. I have to admit $12 for 10 plates is steep, I sell the the same product through The Whole Leaf Co. and they are are cheaper than that. Not only that we are trying to make it even more cheaper so that it can compete with the paper and plastic disposables. You have to remember even using renewable trees trees or their waste to make paper plates is still very polluting. The pulping processes take up huge amounts of energy, and then not only that they use binding products which dont necessarily breakdown. Not only that america and most of the western world still gets their paper plates from places like China because its cheap. Where we source our products they get from co-ops run in villages, the process of making them is very labour intensive and provides jobs.

I am hoping to give people a cheap and greener option.

]]> By: Joehttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/14/verterra-dishware-made-from-fallen-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-104329 Joe Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:09:00 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/14/verterra-dishware-made-from-fallen-leaves/#comment-104329 $12 for 10 plates?! They are cool but they will never catch on in mass here in the states at that price. And as some one else mentioned they are being shipped around the world!? It makes more sense to buy paper plates made in the states from our own renewable trees within well managed forests, or better yet from the waste of those trees when they are turned into lumber. $12 for 10 plates?! They are cool but they will never catch on in mass here in the states at that price. And as some one else mentioned they are being shipped around the world!? It makes more sense to buy paper plates made in the states from our own renewable trees within well managed forests, or better yet from the waste of those trees when they are turned into lumber.

]]> By: Brunda Ganeshhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/14/verterra-dishware-made-from-fallen-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-87703 Brunda Ganesh Mon, 07 Jul 2008 09:52:47 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/14/verterra-dishware-made-from-fallen-leaves/#comment-87703 We use these dishes and bowls made from pressed leaves a lot here in India specially during festivals and occasions. They somehow add their own flavour to the food served on them. I think this is a great idea, I wish they didn't look so much like their Styrofoam counterparts, the plates that inspired them are so rustic and beautiful, where you see so much texture, the veins of the leaf, the leaf itself forming a unit in a grid that maked the plate. We use these dishes and bowls made from pressed leaves a lot here in India specially during festivals and occasions. They somehow add their own flavour to the food served on them.
I think this is a great idea, I wish they didn’t look so much like their Styrofoam counterparts, the plates that inspired them are so rustic and beautiful, where you see so much texture, the veins of the leaf, the leaf itself forming a unit in a grid that maked the plate.

]]> By: S.Readhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/14/verterra-dishware-made-from-fallen-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-81446 S.Read Thu, 15 May 2008 04:40:31 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/14/verterra-dishware-made-from-fallen-leaves/#comment-81446 would buy them if they didn't come across the ocean, and burn fuel. lots of palm trees in cali. we should make those here! would buy them if they didn’t come across the ocean, and burn fuel. lots of palm trees in cali. we should make those here!

]]> By: M2JLhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/14/verterra-dishware-made-from-fallen-leaves/comment-page-1/#comment-81423 M2JL Thu, 15 May 2008 01:27:50 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/05/14/verterra-dishware-made-from-fallen-leaves/#comment-81423 That's a very cool idea. Too bad that woman from the side road is not going to get any of that prize money... That’s a very cool idea. Too bad that woman from the side road is not going to get any of that prize money…

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