{"id":7157,"date":"2017-12-14T07:10:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T07:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7157"},"modified":"2017-12-14T07:10:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T07:10:22","slug":"unsw-student-invents-renewable-form-of-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/unsw-student-invents-renewable-form-of-packaging.html","title":{"rendered":"UNSW student invents renewable form of packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A graduating student from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia has invented seaweed food packaging, which could eliminate the need for plastic.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7159 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12_jesszinga_supplied_2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12_jesszinga_supplied_2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/12_jesszinga_supplied_2-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The student, Jessica Zinga,\u00a0invented an entirely renewable form of packaging: seaweed fish and chip containers. As part of the Sea Harvest, Zinga has produced the new container packaging using 100% seaweed fish and chip.<\/p>\n<p>The biodegradable packets, which have potential to eliminate the need for plastic, can be returned to the ocean rather than landfill, creating a closed-loop life-cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The project work has been exhibited at the Australian Design Centre\u2019s Design Bright Futures exhibition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.packaging-business-review.com\/news\/unsw-student-invents-renewable-form-of-packaging-121217-5999942\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graduating student from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia has invented seaweed food packaging, which could eliminate the need for plastic. The student, Jessica Zinga,\u00a0invented an entirely renewable form of packaging: seaweed fish and chip containers. As part of the Sea Harvest, Zinga has produced the new container packaging using 100% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[546,557,544,618,615,59,576],"tags":[675,635,554,136],"class_list":["post-7157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-non-fuel-products","category-algae-plastics","category-algae-polymers","category-innovations","category-research-2","category-seaweed","category-university-research","tag-algae-plastics","tag-algae-polymers","tag-algae-products","tag-algae-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7160,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7157\/revisions\/7160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}