The Swag

Bags Keeping Produce at Home Fresher and Longer – By enhancing hydration, promoting breathing, and prolonging ethylene buildup, The Swag provide an optimal environment for produce to remain fresh, crisp, and healthy. With an aim to reduce food waste, The Swag are bags designed with multiple layers that each play an important role in providing hydration and breathability for produce stored within. The[...]

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Bag prolonging produce life

CanReseal

Cans That Can Reseal and Save – Cans of all types that typically could only be opened once can now be resealed with CanReseal. With it’s convenient twist on technology, cans be designed with all the current type of openings having CanReseal’s technology implemented. The resealing capability helps reduce food and drink wastage, while saving more space and material needed to[...]

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RECOOL®

The Cool Box Made Entirely From Biodegradable Materials – The RECOOL® is made from recycled paper and AKD, making the box fully compostable after its lifetime. Having a long cooling performance, the box can hold ice for up to 12 hours, remain waterproof for up to 5 days and is reusable after use. It is an environmentally sensitive alternative to harmful single use[...]

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1Skin

Bottles Without a Label – This fully recyclable bottle is made with readily 100% recycled PET (r-PET). 1SKIN has been designed by Sidel for easy recycling. With its thermoformed embossment design, the label-free bottle with its tethered cap can enter the recycling stream with no need to separate additional raw materials such as ink, glue, labels or sleeves. Meeting[...]

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twistMist

Propellant-Free Aerosol Containers – twistMistTM and its 100% mechanical actuation mechanism creates a consistent spray from the first-to-last drop. It can be loaded to a pressure of 4–5 bars. Their aerosol technology is powered by a twist rather than harmful propellants. The bottle is never pressurized and can be customized with any shape, material, or color. Allowing also for[...]

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3D Printing With Coffee Grounds

Coffee Grounds as a 3D Printing Material – Millions of tons of coffee grounds are generated annually globally. With the growing interest of upcycling and reusing the bi-product, numerous innovative concepts and projects have been in research. Michael Rivera and his team have developed a process on how to recover spent coffee grounds from local coffee shops and convert them into a material[...]

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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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Ebb & Flow Keg

Wine Kegs For A Sustainable Wine Culture – A modern wine catering company for festivals, trade fairs, company parties, and events. Rethinking how wine is packaged, Ebb & Flow Keg offers an alternative to the common single use bottles. The common wine bottle packaging can account for over 50% of a wine’s CO2 balance. Ebb & Flow Keg’s reusable stainless steel barrels[...]

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Wein-Mehrweg eG

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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Styrofoam® Ccycled™ coolers

– – Fish boxes made of expandable polystyrene (EPS) – also known as Styropor® – are an important packaging product that optimally protect the product during transport and ensure the cold chain. With its Styropor® Ccycled™ material, BASF provides the basic material for a more sustainable alternative to conventional boxes made purely from virgin plastic.[...]

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CheerProject

Organic Composite-
material from pine needles
– The ‘Cheer Project’ is pine needle research that developed the abundant, mostly unwanted material into a 100% bio-based, recyclable and compostable bio-composite material. Through a holistic approach, the Cheer Project’s production process unleashes the dormant potential of pine needles while empowering local communities by creating livelihood opportunities for them. The raw material is sourced[...]

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Zero economy meal tray

Packaging concept for flight catering – As part of the research project “Get Onboard: Reduce. Reuse. Rethink.” developed solutions for the waste generated by air travel – as much as 5.7 million tons of cabin waste per year. The results of the agency, which specializes in the transport sector, were presented in 2019. The solutions developed focus on in-flight catering.[...]

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