Italy’s largest producer of brushes “Venice” now brings us with its biodegradable brushes and combs made from cellulose acetate that is derived from cotton. Free of dyes, these new brushes appear in a slightly milky transparency, making it nice and comfortable to see.  Moreover, the brushes and combs are durable too, featuring a good ability to server you for a long time.

Designer: Acca Kappa

Selling Price: $7-$40

Can you believe this, these OAT shoes will biodegrade and sprout trees after you throw them away? If that could become a reality, our shoes would indeed leave no marks to the environment. Additionally, these shoes are packed with tree seed in the lining so that they can become trees when buried in the garden. Sounds really interesting, and there is only one question: will these shoes sprout too when they’re still worn on our feet?

Designer: OAT

We can use potatoes to make various dishes, but what about using them to make a rain poncho? The results seem still good. This biodegradable rain poncho here is rightly manufactured with bioplastic derived from over 20 varieties of French potatoes. As a result, it not only protects you users from rain, but also protects the world from pollution. So it is really an eco-friendly design, do you love it too?

Selling Price: 15Euro

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Have you ever realized how much biomass energy you’re wasting when throwing rubbish away? Let the trash bag designed by Ahhaproject tell you something: a full bag of rubbish is sufficient enough to boil 100 cups of tea, recharge cellphones 300 times or drive your car 16 miles. You see, even the trash can still do so many things, isn’t that amazing? Something more amazing is that these new trash bags can not only visualize the amount of energy contained, but leave no prints to the environment as they’re completely biodegradable PLA material.

Designer: Ahhaproject

Apparently Geneva-based Altanus has resulted in a world-wide revolution of timepieces after they announced to own the world’s first biodegradable paper watch “Patch”. Available in 10 neon colors, the Patch features a simple LED ticker and it is degradable in nature, therefore leaving little prints to the environment when the timepiece is no longer needed.

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Though flax fiber is widely used for suits, have you ever thought of making a bike with the same material? Actually, the world’s first bike has already won EuroBike Gold Award. Built from biodegradable flax fibers, the bike is durable and lightweight, and it performs well at absorbing and dampening road vibrations. It’s also built with a battery-free lighting system that is powered by a dynamo in the front hub, making it a stylish and eco ride.

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You know those disposable paper cups that give you much convenience have destroyed the environment? Well, no more. A company called The Way We See The World has created the Jelloware Edible Glasses, which are made out of agar agar (a seaweed extract) to assure edible safe. But in reality, these glasses are meant to be thrown into the grass to nurture the growth of plants after they’re used.

Designer: The Way We See The World

Guess what, the cool jacket is made from vegetable leather that is grown from a vat of green tea! That’s really incredible, but that’s just what the fashion designer Suzanna Lee has created in the “BioCouture” research project based at Central Saint Martin’s College.

Continue reading for a further explanation offered by Suzanna after the jump.

“The process uses a sugary green tea recipe, to which, a bacterial culture is added. It takes about 2-4 weeks to grow a sheet that is thick enough to use. Sheets are then dried down; either shaped over a wooden dress form–like the ghost dress and ruff jacket [images, below]–or sewn together conventionally. Depending on the recipe the material can either feel like paper or–more desirably–like a vegetable leather.

In testing with dyes we found no need for mordant [a substance used for dyeing fabrics] and an incredibly small amount of dye goes a long way so it’s eco-credentials go through the entire process. We also recycle a percentage of the fermentation liquid.”

Designer: Suzanna Lee

“Same classic taste, but greener”, with that in mind, Andrew Kim has come up with a new series of packaging designs for Coca Cola, the ‘Eco Coke’. Simply judging by the outside, the futuristic Coca Cola is refreshing, smart, ergonomic, cut, and still classic. But what really makes me excited is it’s made of 100% sugar cane byproducts and completely eco-friendly to the environment. Another thing to be mentioned is that the bottles can collapse 66% smaller than its original size, allowing an easier transportation for later recycling.

Designer: Andrew Kim

Designed by Elium Studio for Lexon, these innovative gadgets are all made from sustainable materials like the corn bio-plastic and bamboo trim. The new range includes a crank-up radio, a calculator, a pocket flashlight, and several clocks. These gadgets are all powered by renewable solar energy.

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‘Aqua Jar’ is one of the attractive products exhibited at Valencia Design Week in October. It transforms any plastic bottle into an easy-pour pitcher, therefore allowing water to be served without sprinkling. Moreover, ‘Aqua Jar’ is made from biodegradable and recyclable plastic, eco-friendly to the environment.

Though everyone wants to contribute to the eco-business, most of us really couldn’t find the right way to it. So what should we do now? Probably the compost dustbin will answer you, because it ensures you to promote compost by just sorting garbage into different dustbins. Based on a biodegradable technology, bio-reactive substances in the dustbin will start working to degrade certain trash while leaving out the non-available dust. Isn’t it encouraging that you can recycle waste in such an easy way? Join us right away.

Designer: Julien Bergignat, Cecilia Jia & Johnny Chen

No pollution and pure natural, the Biodegradable Bowls from Dutch are paper-thin bowls made from carrots, peppers, beet root, leeks, tomatoes and other vegetables. After a proprietary drying and forming process, all vegetables change their original shapes into absolutely different paper-thin layers.

Designer: Geke Wouters

Tin can lids are a series of biodegradable, plastic lids specially designed for used tin cans by Northumbria University graduate Jack Bresnahan. These lids can turn cans into useable household containers, including a vase, soap dispenser, sugar caster, tea and coffee canisters, toothbrush holder, money box and desk tidy.

Designer: Jack Bresnahan

The elegant purple PC, winner of “DELL Regeneration Green Computing Technology Contest”, is made of biodegradable polymers to embody the concept of “environmentally friendly”. Though it‘s a mini guy, the sustainable computer shows a powerful function with all the elements such as interfaces, CD-ROM projected in its arched case. As it can use anything as the screen and keyboard through projection, no extra components are needed.

Environmentalism has become a mainstream all over the world, and the shell of the environmentally-friendly pen is made of corn starch plastic, which is completely degraded in certain condition. So such green pens won’t result any pollution to the environment and you needn’t to worry about your children with the bad habit of biting pens.

Selling Price: $2
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