Consumers are becoming more and more environment-conscious and have started to demand eco-friendly products from manufacturers. As a response, there have been a tremendous effort from the part of manufacturers to project themselves as eco-friendly by coming up with products and packaging that are not harmful to the environment.Food and drink packaging, for one, can be both costly and a detriment to the environment. When packaging such as plastic, styrofoam cups and plates are thrown away, they end up in a landfill where they stay for hundreds of years before they completely decompose.
Who says that eco-friendly packaging designs are boring? Here, we listed down 25 creative packaging that are not only stunning but also good for our environment.
01-Lacoste Eco/Techno Polo
The concept was to explore two very different materials and the technology used in the production process of these special edition eco shirts from Lacoste. The most eco-friendly way to package the eco polo was not to print on the packaging at all but use embossing instead. The techno polo is vacuum-packaged in screen-printed foil.
02-Sennheiser Eco-Friendly Packaging
This eco friendly packaging for Sennheiser CX 300 ear phones is made from cardboard and is 100% recyclable – “no nasty plastic clam shell to clog up land fills.”
03-Light Bulb Package Redesign
This environmentally friendly package is redesigned for General Electric high-end light bulbs. It is highly encouraged nowadays in the design world to design with sustainability in mind.
04-Phycisian’s Formula Organic Wear
Here is an eco-friendly mascara from Physician’s Formula. Its 100% Recyclable Eco-Brush defines each lash with ultra-soft plastic bristles and is claimed to be 100% free of harsh chemicals, synthetic preservatives, parabens, clumping, smudging, flaking, fibers and dyes.
05-Reserve Collection Coffee Packaging
These were printed at the popular Minneapolis-based letterpress studio, Studio on Fire.
06-GreenYard Winery
A green packaging for a wine label created with sustainability in mind.
07-COLORLESS–an eco friendly package proposal for Coca-cola.A convex logo substitutes colorfully sprayed can.Naked can help to reduce air and water pollution occurred in its coloring process. It also reduces energy and effort to separate toxic color paint from aluminum in recycling process. Huge amount of energy and paint required to manufacture colored cans will be saved.
08-Yellow+Blue = Green, as in organic wines in recyclable Tetra Paks.
Spear Design Group developed the new packaging that tells the Yellow+Blue story for the company’s four eco-friendly, organic wines: Malbec, Torrontes, Sauvignon Blanc and Rosé.
09-TOT-a-LOT
A brand dedicated to design clothes for twins. All materials and inks used in their clothes are eco-friendly, creating a packaging design that is simple but impressive.
10-An eco-friendly Packaging Design Concept for Tide
Environmentally friendly laundry soap that uses only what is necessary to get your clothes fresh and clean while keeping the ecological impact low.
11-Eco Undies
An eco-friendly packaging design for am=n eco-friendly underwear., which made use of organic cotton, dye free and bleach free.
12-Sustainable CD Case
Here’s a simple concept to replace the traditional CD case. The system is actually proposed in a detachable continuous strip adaptable to the number of CD to be packaged. This package contains no adhesive and is made of recycled and recyclable cardboard.
13-Meaty Packaging
The packaging is completely biodegradable. Since the paper was treated with water proof starch, it is completely nonabsorbent to prevent any unsightly damp spots and discoloration.
14-Roll-Out Veg Mat
A simple, fun solution which could encourage families and individuals to grow there own food saving them money and of course the environment.The final design solution was a simple nutriant enriched corrugated cardboard seed mat.
15-Puma Clever Little Bag
By providing structure to a cardboard sheet, the bag uses 65% less cardboard than the standard shoe box, has no laminated printing, no tissue paper, takes up less space and weighs less in shipping, and replaces the plastic retail bag.
16-CD Case (Student Work)
Here is another sleek concept for CD storage. It proposes a classification system that reduces the handling of plastic cases and complex envelopes and gathers all disks in standard size DVD boxes. The material used is made of simple recycled Kraft chipboard and printed in one color. The design allows generous space for the identification and description of content.
17-Olive Poop Bags
It seems strange that conscientious dog owners pick up their dog’s poo (which is 100% biodegradable)…only to pop it into a plastic bag that will be with us for 100?s of years.
18-Bee Yogurt
Beee manufactures environmentally-friendly goat cheese and yoghurt. Its products are absolutely natural and it follows biodynamic agricultural practices in its own farm.
19-Incredible Dissolving Bag
A new packaging material called harmless-dissolve which was created in the UK by Cyberpac.
20-Märsödal Farm
Identity and packaging concept for ecological farm products. Together with the ecological look, A classic French cloth pattern is combined with a classic use of typography to create a one-of-a-kind branded experience.
21-The eBay Box
eBay just launched a new set of reusable boxes as part of a pilot program to make shipping a little greener. Starting in October, the company is giving away 100,000 shipping boxes to eBay sellers, and encouraging reuse. According to eBay, if each box gets used five times, the program could protect nearly 4,000 trees, save 2.4 million gallons of water, and conserve enough electricity to power 49 homes for a year.
22-Student Spotlight: J. Chris Schwartz
The design, typography and materials used in this project were inspired by design from the era Carver’s was living. Everything on the menu is a peanut based product and all designs were screen printed on the raw materials.
23-Hangerpak (Student Work)
A sustainable, reusable way to send and keep your t-shirts. As you open the package you create a coat hanger. The packaging could be made from recycled material whether it is card or plastic and the only waste is the green tear-away tab.
24-60 Bag
These bags are the perfect natural answer to the environment’s needs. They are biodegradable carrier bags made out of flax-viscose non-woven fabric. Its material was scientifically developed and manufacture in Poland. The flax-viscose fabric is produced with flax fibre industrial waste, which means it doesn’t exploit any natural resources and requires minimal energy during its production.
25-Revelry Wines
Revelry wines are sold in patent-pending REVELution cask. According to 425 Magazine, the “unique, boxed design holds almost twice the amount of wine that a bottle holds, isn’t susceptible to cork taint and keeps wine fresh for several weeks after opening”. It is also recyclable.
