JAPAN design community thinking GREEN

well, my new favorite website yielded this look at the Japanese Design Communities’ attempt to ‘green up’ their packaging…I have a feeling the balloon-filled tofu (below) would be slow to actually making it onto American store shelves, but I think it brilliantly resourceful!

The following was taken from pingmag.

Tofu packed into balloons, by Kamakura-komachi?! Surprisingly a great example for reduced packaging: Its elastic material is extensively stretched, and when pierced with a toothpick, the balloon bursts and only a tiny bit remains. How amazing! REDUCE with more flexibility! The same packaging concept is also applied to a pudding – to be seen here.