Your next Samsung phone could come in recycled and bio-based paper and plastic wrapping.
The company’s electronics division announced its new sustainability policy Sunday and it involves changing product packaging for its phones, tablets, and wearabl…
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Samsung is ditching plastic packaging
Samsung Electronics said Sunday it will replace plastic packaging used for its bevy of products from mobile phones and tablets to home appliances and wearables with paper and other environmentally sustainable materials like recycled/bio-based plastics. Samsung will start making the switch in the first half of the year. The company aims to only use paper packaging materials […]
View More Samsung is ditching plastic packagingAmazon puts $10M in Closed Loop Fund to make recycling easier in more American cities
Amazon announced today that it has invested $10 million in Closed Loop Fund, which finances the creation of recycling infrastructure and services in U.S. cities. In a statement, the e-commerce behemoth claimed that its investment will keep one million tons of recyclable material out of landfills and “eliminate the equivalent of two million metric tons of […]
View More Amazon puts $10M in Closed Loop Fund to make recycling easier in more American citiesBoxLock secures your booty against porch pirates
This clever – if expensive – product is called the BoxLock and it is a keyless padlock that lets your package delivery person scan and drop off your packages into a locked box. The system essentially watches for a shipping event and then waits for the right barcode before opening. Once the delivery person scans […]
View More BoxLock secures your booty against porch piratesThis fully edible food packaging material is the product of bacterial fermentation
Polish designer Roza Janusz has found a way to create fully edible, fully biodegradable food packaging out of a bacteria fermentation process. To produce the material, she starts with a kombucha SCOBY (aka symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast) whi…
View More This fully edible food packaging material is the product of bacterial fermentationMeet Lumi, the Los Angeles startup that just raised $9 million for a packaging business
Alongside co-founder and longtime partner Stephan Ango, Jesse Genet has built a business with Lumi that’s already been profitable, and has just raised $9 million in venture funding to boost its growth. Read More