Eco-Friendly Packaging Wraps Products in Natural Designs

摘要

With disposing of plastic waste becoming a bigger and bigger environmental problem, green-minded people are trying to find ways to reduce and even eliminate its use as much as possible. One major user of plastic waste is the food-packaging industry; plastic has long been used as a way to keep foods fresh during transport and shelf time, and plastic and Styrofoam are used often for food service and takeaway containers. However, new inventions in sustainable packaging are seeking to eliminate the use of these materials, making not only packaged foods themselves biodegradable, but the material surrounding them as well. Consider the egg, the outer shell of which, though it's not used, is as biodegradable as its inner shell and can be used as natural fertilizer for plants or other purposes. This makes it a perfect example of the goals sustainable packaging advocates are trying to achieve, said Leif Steiner, principal and creative director at Moxie Sozo, a design and advertising agency in Boulder, Colo., that tries to achieve sustainability in all of its' design and business practices. "The ultimate package would protect the contents during shipping and then be consumable or reusable afterward," he said. "Nature's ultimate package would, of course, be an egg."