Graduating UNSW design student Jessica Zinga has invented an entirely renewable form of packaging: seaweed fish and chip containers. The renewable seaweed container is produced from 100% seaweed that, unlike plastic and polystyrene, can be returned to the ocean rather than landfill.
“I see seaweed as creating value from locally accessible and sustainable resources that could be explored in any region of the world. Seaweed farming has been promoted to fisherman in developing tropical countries as a profitable revenue, taking pressure off local fisheries.” says Zinga, who is exhibiting her project, Sea Harvest, at the Australian Design Centre’s Design Bright Futures exhibition.
Jessica Zinga's Sea Harvest. Source: UNSW
Her work is being exhibited along with 11 other outstanding 2017 UNSW Art & Design graduating Masters and Bachelor of Design students across fields including jewellery, textiles, graphics and spatial design.
Another graduate student, Julia Sharkey, has designed MyCycle, an app and website that makes bio-degradable and organic menstrual sanitary products easily available by delivering products directly to the consumer.
Julia Sharkey's MyCycle. Source: Supplied
