These days, we are ordering takeaway and a lot. Part convenient, part lazy, takeaway offers some much-needed variety, and every meal is monotonous during the pandemic. With the surge in popularity, Forest & Whale is a multidisciplinary design practice focusing on products, circulatory systems and future ideas. It hopes to use Reuse to combat the harmful effects of disposable plastics on the environment. This is a disposable food container. It can be composted or eaten in cities with corresponding facilities.

Gustavo Maggio and Wendy Chua co-founded Forest & Whale to explore the design world and its relationship with the environment, as well as our own human behavior and life experience. Reuse uses wheat husks as the base and PHA as the lid. As a fully compostable food container, Reuse not only enhances our experience of eating takeaway food, but also has a conversation about our high consumption habits and its negative impact on the environment. Wheat husk and PHA are a kind of bacteria-based composite material. Its function is similar to natural plastic derived from organic materials. Both can be composted as food waste without additional industrial-grade composting facilities. The availability of Reuse depends on its simple decomposition and accessible construction process, calling for large cities and small towns to adopt this form of takeaway food. Similar to the paper straw revolution that we saw almost overnight, the food delivery industry can quickly adapt to replacing plastic containers with biodegradable and compostable containers, such as Reuse.

Although disposable plastic containers can be discarded quickly and easily, they have an amazing impact on the environment. Considering their low recycling rate, plastic takeaway containers will exist for a long time, flow into waterways and pollute the ocean, spread toxins to wild animals, release harmful chemicals and gases into the air we breathe, and often undermine our waste management system. Maggio and Chua of Forest & Whale designed Reuse to reduce our responsibility to the planet and the pressure on our health. Hoping to completely replace disposable plastic containers with compostable and edible takeaway boxes, Reuse marks the first step towards a worthwhile goal.

Made of wheat husk and PHA, the reusable disposable food container is fully compostable and edible.

Reused food containers will completely decompose in nature within one to three months, thereby minimizing the impact of their scrap.

I know everyone wants this year to end as soon as possible, but Jeff Lieberman's iconic installation "Slow Dance" proves...

Call it a lively crossover series, but AirPods Case looks like a box of dental floss, and Morph Floss Pen looks like...

You are a good cook! You can even put great people like Anthony Bourdain to shame. I suggest you even take over Kylie Kwong's show...

With the ever-changing fashion trends, increased awareness of fashion, and the unique needs of different activities for clothing, Plexus has explored the concept of clothing...

Throughout our lives, classic product design has always been the standard of our daily lives, so much so that we have never questioned the design of screwdrivers,...

The Microsoft XYV concept perfectly bridges the gap between powerful gaming laptops and convenient thin and light media laptops. In the ever-changing world of notebook computers,...

We are an online magazine dedicated to reporting the best international product designs. We are passionate about new, innovative, unique and undiscovered things. Our eyes are firmly set on the future.