Traditional vs. contemporary - crockery

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Traditionally, we Indians ate in leaves, whereas the more well off ate in metal plates. Soon everybody started using metal plates. At first it was silver, then bronze, then brass, then steel, and eventually aluminum. Depending upon financial abilities. Somewhere in between crockery became the norm. It was affordable so steel plates were replaced by crockery. Even though crockery required frequent replacement. Melamine made a brief replacement but fear of plastics made us revert to crockery. Now I think we were wrong to leave traditional ways. Steel plates can be used generations after generations. But crockery not. Only thing is we cannot use steel plates in microwave. But imagine how much we pollute with crockery? How many cups and plates have you broken in your lifetime. I think my record is pretty bad. I am ashamed to admit it. I must have broken about 8 cups and 2 plates and 25 drinking glasses in about 50 years of my life. Come to think of it, we don't need to place drinking glass in the microwave, so why should we have breakable drinking glasses at all? For the sake of planet, I am stopping those from today.