Buying goods online has made shopping incredibly convenient, but it’s also created one of the biggest pollution problems of our time: Packaging. Each day millions of packages filled with bubble wrap and other plastic protection are shipped out everyday only to be thrown away upon arrival, so a group of Japanese designers have created a substitute for packaging made from agar, a jelly-like substance derived from algae. Agar is far more sustainable than plastic and can make a serious dent in the amount of plastic pollution plaguing the Earth.
Forget bubble wrap, the future of packaging is marine algae
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