A company in the Indian city of Coimbatore have chosen to manufacture products from Areca tree leaves in a bid to tackle the single-use plastic epidemic.

Filmed on January 7, the footage shows the manufacturing process where the leaves are fashioned into recyclable utensils.

Areca trees are usually planted in the hilly areas for the nuts that the trees produce.

They belong to the palm family and are grown without the use of fertilisers.

Tamilnadu - the southernmost state of India has drastically seen a boom in eco-friendly businesses due to the state-wide ban on single-use plastics.

Areca leaf products, the alternative for single time use plastic.
Say no to plastic has now been a global movement. Countries all over the world now are searching the alternative for the plastic particularly single time use plastic. Since countries around the world are conservative over the environmental hazards that the world is facing now due to plastic. Hence the search for the alternative is now the only agenda for the policy makers all over the world. In a country like India we already have a ban over plastic but still adopting the policy takes little harder when it comes to implementation. Tamilnadu the south most state of the India have drastically seen a boom in a particular business particularly after the ban of plastic in Tamilnadu. Yeah the one who involve in making the areca leaf plates and cups the perfect alternative for single time use or throw away plastic products will reach greater heights now.

Areca trees are usually planted in the hilly areas for the nuts that the trees produce. They belong to the palm family. These are grown without the use of fertilizes and hence there is no traces of pesticides in the leaves. Ones the leaves get dried it fall from the tree. The dried leaves ae collected and sent to the factories for the manufacturing of areca plates, cups and the spoons.
Once it reaches the factory the leaves are washed and pressed. In this process we don’t use colors as it harms when it comes in contact with the food. “These are directly sought from the nature and it cannot be matched to any other type of alternative products in the world. Wealth