packaging the future

Amazing Natural Packaging: Eggs - What Makes Them So Tough Anyway?

However you feel about eggs - love 'em fried with onions, hate 'em in anything, or are morally opposed to consuming...

Over the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in the availability of biodegradable plant pots, and I'm...

Here at Inhabitat we've been hoping for, and advocating, biodegradable packaging for years, but now designer entrepreneurs...

Photo: Background pattern of wine bottles corks via Shutterstock If you are involved in the creative community,...

"Before" example of a kids Novara bike: Smarter, lightweight packaging means most of the waste above is eliminated. According...

One in four Americans eats at least one meal a day in a fast food restaurant. Besides it being an arguably high-calorie...

[gallery_extend] A memorial plant Card by Botanical Paperworks I didn't think about my experiment...

[gallery_extend] TP's Sustainable History In the past, (and commonly today, in developing nations)...

[gallery_extend] You might be wondering what the heck is wrong with using a glass bottle for wine anyway?...

In my column 'Packaging the Future', I've looked at the myriad ways the materials around us contribute to environmental...

I've always had an overabundance ofhair; when I was a little girl my grandma taught me to pull the wads from my...

Photo via: Chicago Paper Tube Company For the last year, I have been using wax paper sandwich bags (or these...

[gallery_extend] I went to the website for the cups, which are made by Natureworks, and my initial frustration...

Right now, 8% of the world's oil is used to make plastics -- and oil has to be extracted from the belly of the...

Many of us don't give our skin much thought -- except when it seems to betray us. Teenage acne, painful sunburns,...