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Morrama designed sustainable new packaging for the restaurant chain Wagamama. The chain's ramen bowls can now be taken to-go with stackable bowls that keep crispy squid fresh while keeping excess materials out of the process....

Refillable makeup products promise to reduce waste and help create a more sustainable beauty routine. If you've ever thrown out old makeup, you know how much waste plastic packaging creates. You can fill a wastebasket pretty...

London-based design studio PriestmanGoode, as part of the Wallpaper* Re-Made project, has imagined a new, sustainable option for restaurant takeaway containers that is reusable and plastic foam-free.[...]

Everyone knows that instant ramen is a way of life for college students. Not only is it about the cheapest food on the planet, but it cooks in mere minutes and requires no cooking skills. So it’s no surprise that Holly...

In a small suburb of Melbourne, two entrepreneurs are developing a technology that could mean big changes for the packaging industry. Stuart Gordon and Mark Appleford are the co-founders of Varden, a company that has developed...

Worried about the environmental costs of single-use coffee pods? Steeped Coffee has a game-changing solution for that. The startup has innovated coffee brewing by making it as convenient and simple as steeping a tea bag,...

Single-use plastic may be the biggest issue of our time, but admittedly, it's sometimes an uphill battle to find alternatives. But now, when it comes to finding sustainable toiletries, there's a eco-friendly option. Already...

As the world teeters on the brink of suffocating from single-use products, some designers are quickly coming up with ingenious ways to reduce our waste...

This week, supermarket chain ALDI pledged to offer 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging on all of their products by 2025. In a press statement released early this month, the company outlined their specific...

The U.K. postal service has implored its public to stop mailing empty potato chip bags addressed without an envelope after a surge in chip bag mailings was encountered by its courier offices. The mailings are part of an environmental...

The world's first plastic-free supermarket aisle opened on February 28 at the Amsterdam location of the Netherlands-based supermarket chain Ekoplaza. Within this aisle, customers will be able to choose from more than 700...

Plastic is a plague on this planet, but it doesn't have to be. A group of Egyptian researchers is developing a kind of plastic won't languish in landfills for hundreds of years - made with dried shrimp shells. Just six months...

Polystyrene is out, mushrooms are in. IKEA recently said they will be moving away from the foam and are looking at a more sustainable option made from mushroom fibers. Designed by New York company Ecovative, Mushroom® Packaging...

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Here at Inhabitat we’ve been hoping for, and advocating, biodegradable packaging for years, but now designer entrepreneurs are thinking even bigger; how about packaging one could actually consume? Turning what was a...