A community of seniors and handicraftsmen sell biodegradable leaf plates for additional revenue during the coronavirus pandemic – and at the same time benefit the environment.
Both are produced by a company named Jor Jaan Jai Dee Loei, a province in which leaf plates from local flora are converted into food containers and give resident grandparents and disabled people a side-hub.
'One of the brand's founders, Niracha Wongmasa, said Wednesday,' as the spread of COVID-19 meant that the elderly and disabled had to separate themselves from their children and grandchildren.
"I think this project contributes to generating additional income and eases the worries of this period and also contributes to saving the world," he said.
The plates are assembled by using a compressor and coating sheets or tree husks with starch. As an alternative to foaming and paper plates, they are more and more common in Thailand for several years.
Jor Jaan Jai Dee's Facebook page posted stories about a group of farmers, such as a grandpa and grandmother who every time they visited to produce plates they collect Bodhi leaves from their local temple.
One post tells about a mentally ill child, who generally remains with his mother all day, with the exception of visits to a doctor. The post said that the plates project gave him a focus and a job to boost his mood and social life.
The dishes are made up of the local tree species, including betel palm, areca nut palm, chaad, tong kwao (bastard teak), sak (teak) and corn husks, etc ... Sheets made from local tree species, such as betel palm. The leaves have been washed, sun-dried, sewn, cessava starch coated and machine-pressed.
The processing of fallen leaves to produce additional revenue often prevents them from being burnt through northern slash-and - burn farming.
They can contain dry food as well as wet food and can be used two to six times.
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