Designer creates microalgae material that stimulates plant growth

In Germany, designer Laura Bordini has created packaging from microalgae that stimulates plant growth when it ends up in the environment. Called “By Osmosis,” the concept illustrates how packaging can have a useful second life, creating a circular process.

Bordini sources the microalgae biomass from a waste disposal center in Lindlar, Germany. The concept has already been used to make a flower holder as well as plantable cards with puns like, “Nice to seed you.”

Bordini hopes concepts such as hers will help “make the ecological regeneration a reality and hopefully, eventually become the norm.”