Packaging
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Cardboard has long been proven a very flexible material, used to create products as wide-ranging as bicycles, helmets, buildings, and even a car. Join us now, as we celebrate the most innovative uses of the material that we've come across in recent years.
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As the holiday season gets into full swing, there's bound to be a great deal of waste paper. One plan to cut down on this waste comes via Eden's Paper, which is billed as a "100 percent plantable wrapping paper."
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ScienceAre you sure that the chicken you just bought has been kept cool from the time it left the plant to the moment you stuck it in your shopping cart? Well, you could be if it had one of Thinfilm Electronics' Smart Sensor Labels on the packaging.
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Amorim and O-I unveil their Helix cork and bottle that are designed so that the cork can be removed with a simple twist of the wrist.
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The Zero Waste Twist Dispenser is a prototype container designed to let consumers use every last drop of liquid goods.
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A research group at MIT has developed LiquiGlide, a slippery, non-toxic coating that makes sure every last drop of any condiment flows right out of the bottle.
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Created by the same man who came up with inhalable chocolate, portable containers for food and drinks could soon be available in a novel edible form.
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ScienceResearchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for transforming two-dimensional print output into 3-D structures, using nothing but light.
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A graduate student from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a way of creating a bio-foam from paper mill waste, radically reducing waste from paper production and creating two products that are highly valuable and in demand.
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ScienceScientists have created a plastic food packaging film that changes color in the presence of decaying meat or fish.
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ScienceA "nano-brick" coating developed for food wrap should help foods last considerably longer by sealing out oxygen.
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ScienceScientists have coated paper with silver nanoparticles, to create a "killer paper" packaging that could lengthen the shelf life of foods.
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