I don't use disposable things normally. I only eat from glass or porcelain and drink from glass. I do drink from plastic water bottles....that's my plastic/disposable thing that's regular. I use towels in the kitchen rather than paper towels and I use cloth napkins.
I don't use paper paper plates because using them is inhumane. Do you know how many cardboard boxes they have to kill just to make 1 paper plate? How would you feel if you were that poor cardboard box? Cardboard boxes were created to hold products from Amazon, not to be ground up to make paper plates.
No need to worry about disposable paper products. We can grow as many trees as we want to. The plastics are our big problem.....specifically retail bags and diapers. Both can easily be completely eliminated. Why have they not been? Politics.
We don't either. I keep a small package at my elderly mother's house in case I want to use a plate over there. Her dishwashing skills have deteriorated a bit and she gets mad if I return a "clean" item to the sink. :)
Shuhak 