French designer Gaspard Tiné-Berès proposes to repair and re-use discarded and damaged appliances, with readily available reclaimed materials providing the necessary components, and the bodies constructed from cork.

James Cropper has announced Poise, a new thermoformed, plastic-free, natural fibre member of its COLOURFORM range.

About 35 percent of all harvested trees in the world are used to make paper and cardboard. This method uses nontoxic ingredients and permits repeated reuse of paper, thereby reducing the environmental effects.

A Lamp created from paper pulp of 4-paper egg cartons that are spread over a mold and left to dry.

Synthesis Creative Lab created a natural packing made from a certain type of pumpkin.

San Francisco-based Fireclay Tile turns old CRT glass into recycled glass tiles.

The Pearl concept from Bosch Packaging Technology and their Swedish partner BillerudKorsnäs is supposed to challenge conventional packaging and reduces unnecessary plastic.

Researchers at IBM developed the process, called VolCat, as an alternative to traditional recycling.

Barcelona-based company Fuelium is developing paper-based batteries designed for disposable diagnostic devices. Unlike regular batteries, Fuelim’s batteries claim to create no toxic waste.

Boxes that vanish, electrics that turn cases into power sources for iPads and shape changing materials are just some of the ways packaging is predicted to reinvent itself as soon as the next decade.