The amount of pollution produced by the plastic you'll have to buy and rebuy and rebuy over again once it gets stolen will be far greater than wooden forks/plates that will go back to the planet and which you can get easily by simply planting trees

The gorillas keep their hands/wrists straight to do something similar to what our legs do/look like while doing it, because they're essentially using them as front legs and they need to make sure they won't break/damage their wrists. So they essentially do the second picture here and put their knuckles on the ground.