beworm

Friendly Worms Breaking Down Plastic Naturally – beworm is engaged in crafting a recycling method aimed at breaking down plastic waste into its raw components. By extracting plastic-degrading bacteria from their bee worms, they are focusing on breaking down polyethylene (PE), the most widely utilized plastic. The enzymes generated by these bacteria hold the promise of breaking plastics into fundamental chemicals,[...]

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StixFresh

Applicable Produce Sticker to Prolong Produce Life – ryp LABS’ patent-pending produce label provides a vapour-based protective layer, that extends the shelf life of fruits and vegetables, by reducing over-ripening and spoilage. StixFresh stickers are customized to prevent diseases causing premature rot and can be used anywhere in the food supply chain. Made from food-grade materials, they are recyclable and biodegradable, offering[...]

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NakedPak

Meals Without the Packaging – NakedPak is a series of bare food dishes without any packaging. Each dish contains all the spices and flavors needed to be entirely prepared. The dish is rinsed in the sink, cooked in boiling water, and eaten! Just like an apple which is sold in bulk, exposed to dirt, carried in a bag, and[...]

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GoneShells

Edible Packaging Inspired By Fruit – GoneShells is an innovative biodegradable material that challenges how food packaging can be designed. Packaging solutions today are often made to last years, while the food inside can go bad after days or weeks. Taking cues from nature’s protective fruit skins, GoneShell is a material designed to decompose quickly and harmonize with its contents,[...]

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Tastee Tape

Edible Tape For Messy Meals – Tastee tape is tape you can eat while holding those messy meals like wraps. Tastee Tape is a fun and useful way to hold your food together and keep your meals mess-free. With no waste afterwards. Made entirely from edible fibres. #messfree #wrapsforlife #saveawrap #foodtape #foodglue #innovativefooddesign Product Name: Tastee TapeManufacturer: Tastee TapeProject Status:[...]

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Eggshell Ceramic

The Unique and Handmade Nutrient Rich Plate – 10 billion eggs a year are produced in the Netherlands, making the country the largest egg exporter in the world. An egg produces a valuable material which is often seen as waste; its shell. These shells, however, are nutrient rich and can be used in agriculture to greatly benefit the soil. Eggshell Ceramic is[...]

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Wein-Mehrweg

A Reusable Wine Bottle System in Germany – Established in January 2023, Wein-Mehrweg eG is a cooperative that has developed an innovative 0.75-liter reusable wine bottle concept and intend to gradually have it replace a significant portion of disposable bottles on the market today. Ten founding companies, collectively managing over 5% of Germany’s total vineyards, are supporting this initiative. This sustainable transition[...]

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Meal Bag

Corn starch edible packaging – Packaging as part of the food chain instead of waste – based on this idea, product designer Amelie Graf has developed a concept to reduce packaging waste. The result is Meal Bag – an edible food packaging. In this way, the designer wants to contribute to a rethinking of the way we deal with[...]

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Dissolvable Noodle Packaging

Edible packaging film for pasta – Instant ramen noodles – the epitome of student food. The quick meal was also a regular fixture on the menu of Holly Grounds, who studied product design in London. Confronted with the mountains of waste and the environmental impact of the delicious snack’s packaging, however, the environmentally conscious Grounds faced an immense imbalance: In[...]

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Coffin Alley Project

Paper and cardboard from algae – Sargassum algae were originally found only in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean. For several years, however, the population of the microalga has been moving southward, infesting the entire Atlantic Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, and the west coast of Africa as an invasive species. The native marine ecosystem is negatively affected by the algae. Species[...]

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EcoFLEXY

Bio-cellulose materials – CELLUGY is a Denmark-based startup company that develops sustainable materials through biotransformation. The company has developed EcoFLEXY – a water-based nanocellulose suspension obtained by fermentation of sugar by specific microorganisms. The material comes from natural sources (i.e. no fossil sources) and is therefore fully biodegradable and compostable (at room temperature). Compared to its fossil-based[...]

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Natural Packaging for Natural Products

Vegetables as packaging – While all over the world new materials are being developed to replace plastic packaging in the fight against environmental pollution, the Uzbek agency Synthesis creative lab has gone its own way – and taken inspiration from the country’s history. For centuries, hollowed-out, dried fruits of the langeria, a plant of the cucurbit family, have[...]

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