{"id":48758,"date":"2018-01-08T06:42:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rss.nova-institut.net\/public.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.innovations-report.de%2Fhtml%2Fberichte%2Fmaterialwissenschaften%2Fkampf-dem-plastik-mit-verpackungen-aus-seetang.html"},"modified":"2017-12-19T14:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T13:46:57","slug":"seaweed-food-packaging-could-eliminate-the-need-for-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/seaweed-food-packaging-could-eliminate-the-need-for-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Seaweed food packaging could eliminate the need for plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"

As global pressure to reduce plastic waste grows, graduating UNSW design student Jessica Zinga has invented an entirely renewable form of packaging: seaweed fish and chip containers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jessica Zinga’s Sea Harvest. Photo: Supplied<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The biodegradable packets are produced from 100% seaweed that, unlike plastic and polystyrene, can be returned to the ocean rather than landfill, creating a closed-loop life-cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve used seaweed as a renewable material that doesn\u2019t use fresh water for irrigation, pesticides or consume fertile farmland,\u201d says Zinga, who is exhibiting her project, Sea Harvest, at the Australian Design Centre\u2019s Design Bright Futures exhibition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see seaweed as creating value from locally accessible and sustainable resources that could be explored in any region of the world. Seaweed farming has been promoted to fisherman in developing tropical countries as a profitable revenue, taking pressure off local fisheries.\u201d<\/p>\n

The harvested seaweed is compressed and moulded to produce bowl-like containers ideal for take-away food eaten on the beach.<\/p>\n

Zinga also uses harvested seaweed to make natural dyes for textiles.<\/p>\n

Her work is being exhibited along with 11 other outstanding 2017 UNSW Art & Design graduating Masters and Bachelor of Design students across fields including jewellery, textiles, graphics and spatial design.<\/p>\n

Another graduate student, Julia Sharkey, has designed MyCycle, an app and website that makes bio-degradable and organic menstrual sanitary products easily available by delivering products directly to the consumer.<\/p>\n

A portion of proceeds from each sale is given to Loving Humanity, a charity that provides safe and sanitary menstrual products to the women of the Zaatari Refugee Camp in Jordan.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to create an opportunity to easily access healthy and eco-friendly alternatives to commercial, non-organic menstrual hygiene products,\u201d Sharkey says.<\/p>\n

The sustainable design theme continues in Mia Sabel\u2019s Rubbish Rescue, a documentary and series of portraits that explores the reuse of disposed objects from council clean-ups.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to inspire audiences to embrace reuse in their lives, and perhaps give kerbside shopping a try. If all waste was once designed, I want to explore how can we design to avoid this,\u201d says Sabel.<\/p>\n

Australian Design Centre\u2019s Designing Bright Futures exhibition runs until 31 January 2018. For details click here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As global pressure to reduce plastic waste grows, graduating UNSW design student Jessica Zinga has invented an entirely renewable form of packaging: seaweed fish and chip containers. The biodegradable packets are produced from 100% seaweed that, unlike plastic and polystyrene, can be returned to the ocean rather than landfill, creating a closed-loop life-cycle. \u201cI\u2019ve used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[13283],"supplier":[14063],"class_list":["post-48758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-seaweed","supplier-unsw-sydney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48758"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=48758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}