SUPERHALM

Edible Drinking Straw – The German company Wisefood has realized the mission of a plastic-free drinking straw with its SUPERHALM. The edible SUPERHALM, made from natural ingredients, wants to put an end to the mass of disposed plastic drinking straws. Because over a billion of them are thrown away every day. In addition to fruit fibers and cereals,[...]

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Snap Pack – Nature Multipack

Less Material Consumption Due to Optimized Adhesive – The Snap Pack packaging solution introduced by the Carlsberg Group as part of its Together Towards ZERO sustainability program is a glued-together can multipack that requires no secondary packaging. With the aim of reducing the Group’s global plastics consumption by 1,200 metric tons per year, a specially developed adhesive was developed that has the[...]

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Organic bean

Organic Fuel From Coffee Grounds – As the world’s largest coffee grounds recycler, the British company bio-bean is trying to put the hundreds of thousands of tons of coffee grounds to new use. Usually, the used coffee beans end up in a landfill, but there they emit harmful greenhouse gases like methane. In order to enable industrial recycling of this[...]

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Eco-Bricks

Bricks From Used PET Bottles – The ECO-BRICKS bricks are made of 1.2 kg of plastic waste or 20 PET bottles each. Visually, they resemble common cement bricks, but they are made from leftovers and without the use of heat. In this process, the waste is crushed and supplemented with sand, cement and water, and then formed into bricks in[...]

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Foodini

Food Printer – Foodini makes personalized food production possible with a wide range of ingredients. This efficient 3D food printer produces less waste and also leads to healthier eating due to its portioning method and processing of natural and fresh ingredients. Due to its ease of use, Foodini can be used to present food and dishes in[...]

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The Straw

Vegetable Material Straw – Loliware‘s straw offers consumers a plastic-like but plastic-free alternative to traditional plastic straws. The compostable innovation is made of seaweed and is therefore compostable and absolutely environmentally friendly. It also represents an opportunity to reduce global plastic consumption without having to give up the previous plastic experience. Particularly practical is the 18-hour and varied[...]

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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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Spoonie

Sustainable Ice Cream Spooning – With its cookie-like ingredients, the edible ice cream spoon Spoonie is not only a tastier but also a more environmentally friendly alternative to the traditional plastic spoon. Sturdy and chocolaty spoon lasts an hour in ice cream or desserts before dissolving. The secret ingredient is not the usual chocolate, but the fibers of the[...]

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Super Synthetics

Dissolvable Rice Starch Drinking Vessel – With the Super Synthetics project, a drinking vessel based on natural materials was developed by Maria Idicula Kurian as her master’s thesis at Central Saint Martins College. Various ingredients such as rice pepper, potato starch and bacterial cellulose were experimented with and used in the project. If liquid is added to the drinking vessel,[...]

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Milk Plastic

Products From Cow’s Milk Protein – Milk Plastic is engaged in the manufacture of products based on casein as a starting material. For this purpose, the curd contained in surplus milk is separated from the liquid whey by applying heat. The curd obtained is then dried and processed into pellets by adding natural plasticizers. By processing the pellets into board[...]

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