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Brief:• Explore & Identify suitable materials
and processes• Consider issues of manufacture, waste
and re-use• Produce a 3d piece• Identify areas that would benefit from
innovative materials and design solutions
Packaging According to reports published by Keep
Britain Tidy, “Food on The Go” is the fastest growing type of litter, with a significantly growing increase in confectionery packaging, fast food packaging and snack packaging.
Packaging
The table above shows the percentage of sites according to LEQSE (Local Environment Quality Survey of England) on which ‘food on the go’ litter was found and how this has changed year on year.
VAL UABL ELuxury brands often package their products in Limited Edition packaging made from desirable materials in decorative designs that people will want to hold on to. Whilst this minimises the destructive impact of careless litter disposal, these materials are generally not very sustainable such as precious metals and stones.
EDIBL EWhilst possible in theory, the reality is that edible packaging would then have to be protected from dirt and dust with an additional packaging layer thus making this idea unpractical
Finding a solution
In order to try and find a viable solution to this problem I researched into different ways to make packaging materials
from sustainable, organic products.
Here are the results.
GEL ATIN PL ASTIC
PROSBiodegradable
FlexibleBy-Product from meat
industryCost
CONSUnpredictability when moulding
PAPER MACHE
PROSBiodegradable
StrongGood moulding qualities
CostCan easily incorporate seeds etc for planting
CONSAppearance
RESUL TS
These results indicate that, with the right processes and materials, it is very possible to create a more environmentally
sound solution to snack packaging.The applications for this could provide real solutions to the
waste problem; whilst results have shown that campaigns to reduce waste are largely ineffective, creating waste that could potentially help or enhance the environment would reduce at
least some of the damage that packaging waste causes.
References
http://forums.treehugger.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4752&p=50213http://packaginguniversity.com/blog/tag/plantable-packaging/
http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/local/litter/documents/fastfoodcop.pdfhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/local/suffolk/low/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8530000/8530593.stm
http://www.brc.org.uk/details04.asp?id=1109&kCat=&kData=263&sCat=Retail+Mythshttp://www.p-fuel.com/index_files/whypfuel.htm
http://www.americanchemistry.com/s_plastics/doc.asp?cid=1571&did=5972http://urbanmining.org/tag/recycling/
http://www.wasteonline.org.uk/resources/InformationSheets/WasteDisposal.htm
Images: Google Images
DiscoveryLouisa Cook
2011
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