01 / Dinnerware
Beautiful dinnerware.
Nothing to wash.
The best eco dinnerware, cups and boxes, already chosen for you. Supplier cost plus 10%, nothing to compare. Use it. Enjoy dinner. Skip the dishes.
Washing a place setting by hand costs about $2.28 — once you count your time. See the math
- 01 / Material
- Areca palm sheath
- 02 / Process
- Pressed with heat
- 03 / Finish
- Natural grain, every piece unique
- 04 / After dinner
- Nothing to wash
01.1 / The cost of a clean plate
Washing a place setting by hand costs about $2.28 — once you count your time.
A dishwasher still costs you about 55¢ a setting in time and money. Americans spend ~25 minutes a day at the sink — about 152 hours a year. You have better things to do.
- By hand, with your time
- ≈ $2.28
- per place setting · $27.40 a load
- Dishwasher, with your time
- ≈ 55¢
- per place setting · $6.63 a load
- Time at the sink
- ≈ 152 h
- a year · ~25 min a day
- ASH
- $0.73
- per dinner plate · full setting from $2.51
Estimates: time valued at the US median wage ($24.51/hr), 12 place settings per load. Money-only, washing is cheaper than any disposable plate: ≈ 4¢ (dishwasher) or ≈ 10¢ (by hand) a setting. How we calculated this, with sources.
02 / Manifesto
You have better things to do.
Dinner is the good part. The stack of plates afterwards is not. ASH is dinnerware that looks like it belongs on the table — and never goes back to the sink.
- 01Stay at the table a little longer.
- 02Read the next chapter.
- 03Take the evening walk.
- 04Call someone back.
- 05Start the film on time.
- 06Go to bed with an empty sink.
03 / Product
The 10" dinner plate.
- Diameter
- 10"
- Target spec
- Packs
- 50·100·200
- From
- $37
- Washing
- 0 min
03.1 / Cups, soups and takeout
No mugs, glasses or containers either.
Drinking cups for coffee and cold drinks, plus a soup cup and a to-go box for leftovers. Materials, plainly: the hot cup is plant-fiber paper with a PLA lid, the cold cup is clear plant-based PLA, and the soup cup and to-go box are molded sugarcane fiber — not palm leaf.
04 / Time calculator
How much time do you spend washing dishes?
01 / People in household
02 / Meals per day
03 / Days per week
04 / Minutes washing per meal
Output
- Minutes / week
- 175
- Hours / month
- 12.6
- Hours / year
- 152
Cost per place setting
$5.21
≈ $3,717 of your time a year across 14 place settings a week (meals/day × days × people), plus ≈ 10.5¢ water, energy and soap per setting. Estimate; default $24.51/hr is the US median wage.
- ≈ 76 feature films (2 h each) a year
- ≈ 19.0 working days (8 h) a year
- ≈ 202 albums (45 min) a year
FORMULA
min/week = meals/day × days/week × min/meal
= 1 × 7 × 25 = 175
h/month = min/week × 52 ÷ 12 ÷ 60 · h/year = min/week × 52 ÷ 60
ASH can eliminate the washing step for meals where you choose disposable dinnerware.
Open the full calculator05 / Subscription
ASH Every Month.
ASH / 30
One person
≈ 30 dinner plates / month
ASH / 60
Two people
≈ 60 dinner plates / month
ASH / 120
Four people
≈ 120 dinner plates / month
ASH / 240
Households & frequent entertaining
≈ 240 dinner plates / month
06 / ASH for Business
Skip the dish pit.
07 / Make it yours
Your mark, in the leaf.
08 / Packaging
Opened like hardware.
- 01 NATURAL ARECA PALM SHEATH
- 02 HEAT PRESSED
- 03 NO PLASTIC
- 04 NO DISHES
09 / Story
Why are we spending our limited free time washing plates?
ASH started with that question. We decided disposable dinnerware shouldn't have to look disposable.