Paper Plates or washable dishes?

Question

Which is more environmentally friendly?

Paper plates or dishes?

Paper plates wastes paper products from trees, but dishwashing dishes wastes water.

Which is better?

And why?

Answer 1

Paper plates! Using a dishwasher creates all kinds of negative effects on the enviroment. I bet it's not the wasted water that causes the problems, it's the pollutions the dishwasher puts out!