Recyclable Plates at Olympic Restaurants Out of environmental considerations, the restaurants and cafeteria at the Olympic Village and related facilities will use recyclable paper plates made from apples--or rather, from the fibers and pulp remaining after the juice is pressed from them. Other dishes will be made using potato starch and other natural ingredients. Apples are a famous product of the Nagano region. The Games will likely provide a good opportunity to make them known to the world. The apple-based plates will be 25% fruit fiber and 75% ordinary paper pulp. A total of 900,000 are being made, with a diameter of 23 centimeters (9 inches) for the biggest and 18 centimeters (7 inches) for medium-sized dishes. After use, these plates can be recycled as solid fuel, as base material for recycled paper, or as fertilizer. The dishes made of potato starch are fully biodegradable and friendly to the environment.

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