There are five main categories that I will elaborate on:

• Camping
• Dinner Parties
• Barbecues
• Daily Life
• Serving

Camping - When you take plastic camping plates on a camping trip with you, you realize how useful they really are. The fact that they are lightweight and sturdy means they are something you do not need to worry about. Uses under this category include any trip where you stay somewhere overnight and where there are no plates available.

Dinner Parties - you may think that plastic is a bit informal and ordinary for such an event. However, the availability and range that they come in nowadays means that this is no longer the case. With the economic downturn, this can even be turned into a novelty. And if you have the sort of friends that would laugh at you, get some new ones.

We must not forget to include the ultimate dinner party here (or lunch party) - your wedding! Plastic wedding plates are all the rage now and you can get them easily online at party and event websites. If you don’t want to use them for all meals you can use them just for serving wedding cakes.

Barbecues and Picnics - It’s a lovely summer day and you decide to have a barbecue. Don’t worry about using all your nice plates, use some plastic plates. Since you are hanging out in the backyard, your guests can just trash them once they are done. You don’t even need to clean up. Also, if it’s a lovely day for a picnic you can use them because they are light and will not break.

Daily Life - if you have a busy crazy family or many children then these plates are the answer for you. Save the traditional or fancy ware for important guests or those snobby ones. You can use plastic for every day living so there is no need to worry about breaking plates or cleaning up after them either.

Serving - Feel like a cocktail party? Or even a new years party? Plastic plates for these type of get togethers could be just what you need. Having various finger foods around the place for guests to pick themselves can be placed on them and the guests won’t even know about it. It will either be that or they just won’t care. If you have employed some people to walk around and serve your guests, the same thing applies. If you have all sorts of great things on them, your guests will not even notice, and you will be cutting your costs by quite a bit.

As you can see, there are so many different uses for plates made from plastic. Since they come in so many different sizes and colors you can always get the ones that are right for you and your event. Now that there are many more options than round ones, like triangle or bowl or oval shapes, your parties can become a lot more interesting and different to all the others out there.

In conclusion, plates made of plastic are very versatile. You may have even come up with a few other times when you would use them yourself, times that I have not listed here. Being lightweight and unbreakable and fashionable mean that they are a great alternative plate for you.

This article will show you that you are very wrong. You will be presented with an array of different and interesting examples of what is available. You are sure to be surprised by it.

Let us now break them up into three categories and then show the options within each:

• Colors
• Sizes
• Shapes

Colors - The most common color that plates of plastic can have is solid one. These include red, blue and yellow - the primary colors. Then there are the pastel colored ones and these are great for childrens parties. They can also come in the multicolored variety. I have recently seen clear plastic plates and clear ones with some color involved.

In addition to the above information when it comes to color, we must not forget to tell you about one of the most popular one that is currently on the market. It seems that black plastic plates are all the rage these days.

Sizes - like any other type of plate out there, these plates come in different sizes. You can purchase them with sizes that range from saucers to large serving plates. The sizes in between include breakfast or lunch, dinner and dessert sizes.

Shapes - The typical shape of any type of plate is round and plastic ones are no exception and are the norm. If you want to deviate just a little from this then you can easily find oval ones. The new fancy thing now is the triangle shape. It puts a spin on something that might be considered boring. There are also new shapes especially for serving a number of guests and these are square plastic plates as well as rectangle ones. One of the more recent ideas when is the one where there is an in-built cup holder - especially good for childrens parties.

So there you have it. I bet you are now probably overwhelmed the choices you have. You never thought that would be the case I am sure and your eyes are now opened. They are a great alternative to other types of plates and now you can get one that is right for you. Or maybe more than one, how about a few.