Tag: Bioplastics - Page 2
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Milan Furniture Fair 2010: Live Bio-resin Performance by Breaded Escalope (Video)
There are plenty of cocktail parties at the Furniture Fair in Milan, but this one was quite different. All the way out in Zona Bovisa we visited the show Meet My Project and were greeted at a bar that served fresh... bioresin products! The 3 designers
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Perfect Plant? 7 Great Uses For Industrial Hemp
Not to overly play into the stereotype of the TreeHugger moniker, but today is 4/20 so a quick review of all the great uses for industrial hemp--you
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Billions and Billions of 3D Glasses: Will Biodegradable Frames Discourage Reuse?
It is estimated that if the 42.1 million pairs of 3D glasses used at theaters to watch Avatar were laid end-to-end, they would stretch more than 3,987 miles. Avatar and Alice in
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Play Golf and Feed the Fish with Ecobioball
Our seas and oceans are badly contaminated, especially with plastic waste, which affects animals and plants in the waters. Jeremy wrote in The Great Pacific Garbage Patch: Out of Sight, Out of Mind that "the floating expanse of waste and debris in the
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Ford Adds Wheat Straw to the 2010 Flex
Even in the early heydays, Henry Ford was fond of using plants like hemp and straw to reinforce plastic components for his cars. Now bioplastics are back and turning up in cell phones, forks, and more. Ford Motors started trying out soy-based seat foam
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Spud Plantable Raincoat Made from Potatoes Closes the Loop
Now here's something happy for rainy days: the Spud Raincoat, made from potatoes and designed by the guys from Good for Environment! Under the brand name Equilicuá, they make thought provoking products such as the Econo, a water
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More from The Metropolis Conference at ICFF
The Metropolis conference at ICFF was entitled Design Entrepreneurs: INNOVATE, and in the afternoon sessions Susan Szenasy introduced us to product innovators like Professor Richard Wool of the
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Australia Moves Slowly Closer to Complete Plastic Bag Ban
Today's the day. The day when the state of South Australia officially bans single use plastic shopping bags. As we mentioned, at the start of the year, retailers will be fined if they provide customers with plastic, or even so called
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Why Choose Compostable If It's Still Going in a Landfill?
These days everything says eco-friendly, natural, biodegradable, and compostable (not to mention a myriad of other mysterious environmental words. Sounds good, right? But is it worth spending the extra couple of bucks if the item
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The Consumer Scoop on SunChips' 100 Percent Compostable Packaging
Here on TreeHugger, there’s been tons of mention about Ingeo—the renewable material being used in products like high-end clothing, pens, lipstick tubes, computers and other electronics.
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Discover Launches First U.S. "Biodegradable" Credit Card
We've discussed greener credit cards in the past at TreeHugger. Major credit card companies offer cards that provide donations to nonprofit organizations whose logo or image is featured on the card. But that's not what we're talking
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Away We Go Green: Focus Features Production Embraces More Sustainable Filmmaking
Though there are plenty of films out there spreading green
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Survey: What is the Best Packaging Solution?
Tom Szaky of Terracycle writes that there are three choices for consumer goods: non-recyclable, recyclable and biodegradable. He missed one: no packaging at all, going for zero waste. He asks in his post: "What is the true mass market scalable solution
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Biodegradable vs. Recyclable: Which is the Better Packaging Solution?
We all know that packaging waste is a major issue. But what is the most feasible solution? Today there are fundamentally three choices for consumer packaged goods companies: non-recyclable, recyclable and
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Automobile Farming: Making Cars From Soybeans
Henry Ford once said "I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but shall draw its raw material largely from the annual products of the
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Mexican Food Company Switching to Biodegradable Packaging
Grupo Bimbo, Mexico's largest producer of baked goods, announced this week it will be replacing its plastic packaging with a new biodegradable plastic in all main supermarkets and retail outlets in Mexico City.
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We're Filling the Empire State Building (4 times) with 8 Billion Hangers Each Year
Yep, thats right. 8 Billion. Each. Year. According to Green Progress, over 8-10 billion plastic and wire hangers are sold each year, with only 15% ever being recycled. While clothes hangers, both metal and plastic are pretty
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Siemens' Solar, Leaf, and Stone Phones: Cool Green Vaporware
It's a little discouraging how long it has taken electronics' makers to truly go deep green with their products. Green vaporware is much more common than green alternatives. And so it is with these very cool Siemens concept phones - they'll never
