A friend just sent me a link to this incredible invention that will make recycled / recyclable dishes on demand:

MIT Media Lab’s Counter Intelligence Group, which develops innovative kitchen designs, has created a machine that makes dishes on demand and recycles them after diners have finished a meal. The dishes are made from food-grade, nontoxic acrylic wafers, which are shaped into cups, bowls and plates when heated, then resume their original wafer shape when they are reheated and pressed.

How cool would that be? Acrylic wafers!
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69113,00.html