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Student: Re-Pack Milk

by Elizabeth Freeman on 07/31/2015 | 2 Minute Read

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People throw away tons of trash every day, and the best way to avoid all this waste is recycling. But recycling is not as easy as it seems, especially milk packaging. They are made by 6 layers of different materials (75% of cardboard, 20% of aluminium, and 5% of plastic. To recycle it, it's necessary different processes just to separate them. 

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Re-Pack Milk is a solution to avoid all these waste to separate materials, thus making recycling easier and faster. It's made by cardboard for sustenance and flexible cornstarch bioplastic, and they are already separated - all you have to do is to open the cardboard and fit the plastic package into it. During discard, the user can separate the materials by himself. The flexible bioplastic uses 70% less plastic than conventional rigid plastic packages. It comes with 4 flexible plastic packages and 1 cardboard package, saving paper production. Nowadays, people live in smaller apartments, with less space for storage, so they go more often to the market. In this way, the package is thought for rapid consumption, with 700 ml of milk each package.

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Designed by Danilo Saito, Maira Kondo, Akira Mizutani, Lau Bellesa & Mariana Mascarenhas.

Country: Brazil

City: Sao Paulo