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- Food Waste Ware: tableware with lacquer made from food wasteJapanese designer Kosuke Araki created tableware called Food Waste Ware, made from carbonised food waste, and Anima, also made from food waste and with added…
- Food Printer 2020: Dinner in 3DWe’re all accustomed to having appliances on our kitchen counters, from toasters and blenders to coffee makers and microwaves. If Mechanical Engineering Professor Hod…
- Safer Recycling Solutions for Food Packaging: A Step CloserRecycling food packaging into material suitable for new food packaging presents a significant challenge. New materials must meet strict food safety standards, yet the…
- Microbes Turn PET Waste Into 3D Printed FoodResearchers at Southern Illinois University (SIU) Carbondale have developed a process that uses engineered yeasts to convert plastic and agricultural waste into edible ingredients.…
- An edible building material made of food wasteFabula, a spinoff company of the University of Tokyo, developed an edible building material up to 4 times the bending strength of concrete, made…
- POC: seagrass-based food packaging material to reduce wasteMuch of the plastic we use consists of the packaging of food products. This singe-use plastic is thrown away, only to add to the…
- Turning Food Waste into Design ObjectsDeveloped as part of the MIT Solve initiative, the FOODres.AI Printer is the result of a collaboration between designers Yiqing Wang and Biru Cao.…
- Pumpkin Peel Waste Forms Active Biodegradable Food PackagingResearchers at Kyushu University in Japan have developed a biodegradable packaging material made partly from discarded pumpkin peel. The composite film could help preserve…
- Mycelium And Cellulose Nanofibrils Form Plastic-Free Food PackagingResearchers at the University of Maine have developed a fully bio-based food packaging material made from mycelium and cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs). The material offers…
- Uniting water, energy, and food for perfect synergyAt the Dutch pavilion at the World Expo in Dubai, which starts in October this year, water, (solar) energy, and food create a fully…
- Turning food waste into biodegradable plasticsCanadian-based company Genecis developed biological processes that convert food waste, otherwise destined for the landfill, into biodegradable plastics. The type of plastic Genecis produces…
- This plywood pavilion produces algae as food sourceSpace10, Ikea’s external future-living lab, developed the Algae Dome, a four-metre high plywood pavilion that produces micro-algae as a food source. The alga is…
- Fish Skin Biofilm Offers Sustainable Alternative For Food PackagingResearchers in Brazil have developed a biodegradable biofilm made from fish skin that could replace part of today’s plastic food packaging. The material, created…
- Interior objects made of food and agricultural wasteBio-tech start-up Ottan develops, designs and produces bio-composite materials by up-cycling food and agricultural waste. The materials can be used to make cladding, furniture,…
- Turning polystyrene food transportation boxes into stoolsSpanish designer Andreu Carulla created a series of stools made from recycled polystyrene food transportation boxes for the restaurant El Celler de Can Roca.…
- Compostable cling wrap made with food wasteGreat Wrap, an Australian biomaterials company, developed a compostable bioplastic alternative to cling wrap, made from waste potatoes. Cling wrap is a translucent plastic…
- Sneakers made with non-food milkGerman sneaker brand Nat-2 designed a new line of shoes, made of a mixture of wool and non-food milk fibres. In Germany alone, annually…
- Eat Me: Artist Transforms Discarded Mattresses Into ‘Street Food’French artist Lor-K turns discarded mattresses found on the streets of Paris into delightful, over-sized ‘street-food’ sculpture. Her creations include sushi, pizza, waffles, cakes…
- Colour changing plastic makes ‘sell by’ dates unnecessaryLooking, sniffing and carefully tasting are good ways to indicate if food is still edible. However, anyone who has ever had food poisoning knows…
- Circular Tables Made From Recycled Chopsticks At Raffles City SingaporeAt Raffles City Singapore, the food court includes tables made from recycled bamboo chopsticks. The project shows how waste from the food service sector…
- Using microbial cellulose as sustainable packaging materialFor her bachelor project at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen in 2017, Italy-based designer Emma Sicher developed microbial cellulose made from fruits and vegetables…
- Incredible Cricket Shelter and Farm FacadeInsects are an essential component or our ecosystem and their natural evolution serves as a fascinating source not only of material inspiration, as we've…
- Designing with Our Five Senses: TasteOur next sense as part of our ‘Five Senses Theme’ this week is Taste. And while you may not immediately associate taste with buildings…
- Obvious is importantWhat are the most important qualities of a particular material? This is the question we constantly ask ourselves at Materia. In the exploration, it…
