The design group, AMAM, calls their project Agar Plasticity, which explores the use of a seaweed-derived substance called agar as a biodegradable substitute for conventional plastic packaging.

Going into the summit, the main sticking points were whether any agreement would be legally binding or voluntary, and if it would address plastic production and single-use packaging design or be ...

Thanks to innovations in polymer science and advanced design tools, packaging can be right-weighted, engineered for barrier performance, and tailored to the exact needs of the product. This ...

Every year, people in the United Kingdom throw away around 96 billion pieces of plastic packaging—an average ... science to design. The breakthroughs and innovations that we uncover lead to ...

IKEA, a Swedish homewares giant, has experimented with mushroom-based packaging. As companies step up efforts to reduce their plastic waste ... have used the same design for bottles sold in ...