Leef

It is about making sustainable disposable plates out of palm leaves.
The leaves grow, naturally fall to the ground, get collected, cleaned, and pressed into their final shape. The leaves used are a waste product from nut farming.

With a beautiful, natural and innovative product we want to combine modern throwaway lifestyle with principles of sustainability.

Our goal is nothing less than to avoid the use of plastic plates and plastic coated paper plates and thus save tons of unnecessary garbage.

It is the right dish for EVERYBODY who consumes food on something other than the tradidtional porcellain plate.
We invite all eco sensititive consumers to join us for the purpose of ‘ a greener living’ and use sustainable plates for their BBQs, Parties, Picknicks and „to go“ meals.

Your support goes into something good and valuable. Together we can initiate a change of paradigm within the throwaway culture.
With your support you help us rediscover a fine and fully sustainable way of consuming without affecting nature.
Or better, this is the renaissance of the old principle of borrowing goods from the planet and giving it back into the eco cycle without delay.
Furthermore we create fair jobs and thus a better living standard in rural I… Mehr anzeigen

We already invested lots of time, money and commitment into the project.
With 15.000 € we will buy new leaves in order to have our first container produced and shipped to Germany.

I am Claudio and I am originally an Industrial- and Graphic-Designer. After my studies at the university of Bolzano I left to work several years in Hong Kong .

It was in Hong Kong, where I encountered for the first time the old Indian technique to press plates out of palm leaves. I was right away amazed by the beauty and simplicity of the principle.
How many cubic meters of rubbish that we could save every day by avoiding plastic packaging. The latter … Mehr anzeigen