Growing Organic Packaging
Treehugger points us to an interesting project from the Cargo Packs 2020 competition that uses bacterium to create on-demand organic packaging.
Designer Mareike Frensemeier won third place for the concept which uses the acetobacter xylinum bacteria to self assemble a protective shell similar to paper around an object
Objects are covered in a special culture which then eats a type of sugar, metabolizing the glucose into a “fibrous nano-scaled cellulose network.”
[via Treehugger]
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| TOPICS: | Design & Architecture, Environmental / Green, Science |
| TAGS: | bacteria, cargo packs, Mareike Frensemeier, organic packaging |
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