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Luxurious packaging printed with natural minerals

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The Packadore Collective, a collective of various packaging and printing brands to make packaging more sustainable, developed a new packaging design for natural candles made from recycled cardboard and a powder coating of natural minerals ...

Smart fibres to help regulate your breathing

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Researchers at MIT (US) and the University of Uppsala (Sweden) developed a new type of smart fibre that can be woven into clothing. The fibre can sense how much it is being stretched or compressed ...

Protecting cellulose-based leather with a fungi coating

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Dutch designer Emma van der Leest developed a fungi-based coating that can be used to make plant-based leather water-repellent and more durable. Plant-based leather offers a vegan alternative to animal leather. Unfortunately, many of these ...

A chair made from sequestered CO2

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For his thesis project at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, Riel Bassai designed a modular chair made with blocks of carbon-negative bio-HDPE to store atmospheric CO2. Called Unito, the conceptual chair consists of ...

Biodegradable glitter made from cellulose

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Researchers at the University of Cambridge (UK) developed sustainable, plastic-free glitter for use in cosmetics, made from cellulose found in fruits, vegetables and other plants. Aside from the personal frustration of finding glitter everywhere after ...

Using popcorn instead of polystyrene

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Researchers at Göttingen University (Germany) developed a polystyrene-like material made of popcorn, which can be used as packaging and insulation material. Polystyrene is a versatile material that is used in a range of fields, from ...