Compostable Packaging – Ikea Replaces Styrofoam with Mushroom Based Biodegradable Foam
Ikea has made huge steps towards helping the environment by replacing regular polystyrene plastic styrofoam. The purpose of styrofoam is to hold delicate products during shipping and has added greatly to the piles of waste all over the world as it becomes more materialistic. Usually this takes hundreds of years to break down in landfills […]
Hydroponic Gardens Go Mainstream at IKEA
This month IKEA announced a new indoor hydroponic garden called KRYDDA/VÄXER . The indoor garden allows you to grow food at home year round. The system requires no soil and is designed with the average person in mind. Creator, Helena Karlén with Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences said, “The challenge was to make growing plants in a […]