Plant A Package
Imagine a landfill sprouting bunches of basil or armfuls of wildflowers instead of emitting foul fumes. We might be one step closer to that scenario, thanks to plantable packaging.
Olessa Pindak
Made of 100 percent recycled post-consumer fiberboard, which begins to
decompose within a few days of being placed in wet dirt, plantable
packages are embedded with seeds that sprout after just a
few weeks. "If 10 percent of American
companies switched to postconsumer
fiberboard, we'd
save 90 million trees a year
in the U.S. alone," says Joshua
Onysko, founder and CEO of
Boulder, Colorado-based Pangea
Organics, an innovator
in plantable packaging. "The
seeds bring us in touch with
the world that supports us."
Sweet basil and amaranth
grow from Pangea's packaging, while
Cargo's PlantLove lipstick boxes produce
wildflowers.
