♻️ Notpla is designed to "make packaging disappear"
Notpla has designed a biodegradable and edible packaging, made from seaweed and plants. Its goal: replace plastic.
🌱 Ocean plants could be the answer to food shortages
Professor Patricia Harvey from the University of Greenwich is suggesting a new way of tackling food shortages – a diet called Ocean Flexitarianism.
🧊 Jelly ice cubes - a sustainable solution for cold storage
Recently US Davis researchers developed a new alternative to ice. It doesn’t melt, it is compostable and anti-microbial.
🎨Seaweed dye makes its way into haute couture
The brand Zeefier creates natural dyes made entirely from seaweed.
☎️ The phone booth gets a second life
The UK's red phone boxes are too loved to be removed. Now they are being repurposed as mini-medical centers, the UK’s smallest nightclub and tiny community libraries.
🛩 US airline gets rid of plastic cups and bottles
Alaska Airlines are to replace their single-use plastic water bottles and plastic cups with an organic alternative.
📱 Sustainable smartphone can raise the bar for the whole industry
This smartphone is easy to repair and raises the bar for a more sustainable smartphone design.
🍿 Popcorn - the next sustainable building material?
Popcorn could soon be an eco-friendly and natural alternative to man made insulation.
🌳 $1.7 billion funding for indigenous forest projects
Governments of Norway, Germany, the UK, US and Netherlands have declared a $1.7 billion funding pledge in order to support Indigenous peoples in their work to combat land degradation and forest loss.