Kiriboard: Recycled Cardboard Plastic-Free Packaging
Kiriboard is an exciting alternative to plastic-free packaging, invented by three New York teenagers! Inspired by the Japanese art of folding paper, they created it, when a box of motors for their robotics hobby arrived damaged.
There’s something wonderful about three nerdy teenage boys inventing something to make their hobby work, which could save the planet! This invention has won the Earth Prize 2025 (there are lots more amazing inventions), and there is hope that the new packaging could be used by Amazon, Home Depot and the postal service, to replace the colossal amount of plastic being used for commercial purposes.
Kiriboard is cut into lattice-like shape (just like an apple pie topping) so it can bend to fill the space between an item, to absorb impact and protect just like bubble wrap but without plastic. Using recycled cardboard is biodegradable, whereas plastic is made from oil (so supports the fossil fuel industry and takes over 500 years to biodegrade, releasing microplastics into seas and rivers).
