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Wheat bran disposable tableware – Growing up in a family that had been running a mill for decades, Jerzy Wysocki decided to put the leftover product of the grain milling process, wheat bran, to good use. He developed a natural material from the seed husk and a small amount of water, which is suitable for use as disposable tableware[...]

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Heineken Green Grip

Compostable cardboard applicator – In the future, the British brewery Heineken will replace the plastic rings of its multipacks with a recyclable and compostable cardboard applicator. This saves the company over 500 tons of plastic. This is equivalent to 94 million plastic bags. By the end of 2021, only Green Grips are to be found on supermarket shelves.[...]

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The Compostable Mailer

Mailing Bags Made From Corn Starch – The shipping bags from wastebased are made on the basis of corn starch and the natural PLA polymer, are completely of biological origin and therefore also compostable at home. The idea of producing a material that can be dissolved in water within seconds, leaving no environmentally harmful traces, led the British company to produce[...]

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Totomoxtle

Corn material – Totomoxtle is a new type of veneer material made from Mexican corn husks. The purple, red as well as cream corn grains give a unique design to the lamps, wall coverings, cans and tables. Fernando Laposse’s goal here is to preserve jobs and safeguard the agricultural diversity of his home country. With the declining[...]

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Scoby Packaging

Packaging from organic waste – MakeGrowLab’s woven biowaste packaging is made entirely of cellulose, making it free of toxic pollutants, synthetic polylactides and fossil fuels. Scoby is 40 times more durable than paper and is compostable and plastic-free due to its natural ingredients. Thanks to its airtightness and water resistance, Scoby has already been able to encase shampoos, soaps,[...]

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Pinepac

Packing From Pine Needles – Pinepac, the winner of the 2017 International Packaging Contest in the Material category, is a package made of pine needles and resin. To produce them, the plants are crushed and mixed with the organic binder resin. The resulting mixture is then pressed into molds, which consist of salt, flour, sunflower oil and water. Subsequent[...]

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KAIKU Living Color

Colors from food bowls – KAIKU Living Color is a sustainable alternative to conventional paints made from petroleum. Using food trays from vegetables that have already been eaten offers a chemical- and toxin-free option for coloring materials. For the preparation of living colors are particularly suitable avocados, beet, onions and oranges. These are boiled so that first the juice[...]

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LAVAZZA Cookie Cup

Cookie dough coffee cup – Italian designer Enrique Sardi has created a coffee cup for LAVAZZA that consists of a cookie dough and special powdered sugar. The edible cookie cup can be eaten after the coffee has been enjoyed and therefore produces no waste. LAVAZZA became a pioneer with this idea and has since inspired various food manufacturers to[...]

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ReadyCycle

Sustainable packaging for fruit and vegetables – ReadyCycle’s packaging is a sustainable alternative to traditional fruit and vegetable packaging. The recyclable trays not only offer the fragile goods the optimum protection, but are also designed with a vegetable-based ink. Since no adhesives or labels are used and the trays are made only of recycled paper and a water coating, they are[...]

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Ventri – Cow Stomach

Cow stomach textured leather – Dutch designer Billie van Katwijk produces special handbags from cow stomachs using an elaborate tanning process. For her project “Ventri”, luxurious accessories are created from the slaughterhouse leftovers that were previously processed into dog food. Particularly surprising is the visual appeal and extraordinary texture of the waste product. Accordingly, the different properties of the[...]

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Coconut Water Leather

Leather from coconut water – To produce the biodegradable and waterproof coconut water leather, the coconut water, which is a waste product from coconut processing, is sterilized. The natural substance obtained from this serves as a nutrient for the bacterial culture in the subsequent 12 – 14 day fermentation process. Once the process is complete, the leaf cellulose jelly[...]

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Agar Plasticity

Packing based on seaweed – Agar Plasticity is a materials research project investigating agar as an alternative to synthetic plastics. Agar is a traditional Japanese foodstuff that is often used to make sweets. However, it is also used worldwide in the scientific and medical fields. It is mainly sold in its driedstate in the form of blocks, flakes and[...]

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