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Sausage Of The Future

A sausage with insects, nuts
or vegetables – The enormous consumption of animal products led Carolien Niebling to develop “The Sausage of the Future.” She worked with a chef, a master butcher and a molecular gastronome to produce an alternative that would reduce the meat content by 30-50% by adding other foods. Made with protein-rich ingredients, such as pecan nuts and insect[...]

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Lupine Project

Material from lupins – The packaging material made from lupins was the brainchild of Icelandic designers Inga Guðlaugsdóttir and Elín Harðardóttir. By producing fiberboard from thelupine plant, which is native to Iceland, the different stages of the plant could be examined by testing the bending strength of the plant produced. Tests during the changing seasons further showed that[...]

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MERDACOTTA

Cow dung terracotta – The pottery by Italian dairy farmer Gianantonio Locatelli was created in collaboration with architect Luca Cipelletti. Together, they looked for a way to recycle the 100,000 kilos of cow dung produced every day. The material previously used as fertilizer and for plaster comes from Locatelli’s 2,500 cows, which are now used to make rustic[...]

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Ocean Plastic Soap Bottle

Soap bottle
made from recycled ocean plastic – The ocean plastic 2-in-1 dish + hand soap by method consists of recycled plastic as well as plastic collected by volunteers and clean-up groups on Hawaiian beaches. In this way, over a ton of the collected plastic was passed on to methods recycling partner Envision Plastics for further processing. The grayish color of the[...]

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Fish Leather

Fish leather – Waste products from the fishing industry are used to make a thin, flexible leather that is just as durable as cowhide. The fish leather undergoes a demanding 30-45 day production process: The natural oils and scales of the fish skins – from salmon, cod or perch – are separated by shaking and soaking so[...]

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