Seaweed: The future of sustainable future
SEAWEED : The Future of Sustainable Packaging You must have heard about edible water pouches! These transparent water pouches can be directly eaten with its packaging material. The packaging material is completely edible. Lets take a look at speciality of these seaweed based packaging. From what is this packaging made? This packaging is made from polysaccharides of marine macro algae called seaweed. Seaweed are heterogeneous plants that live in either marine or brackish water environments. It is one of several groups of multicellular algae : red , green and brown . Brown Seaweed 14,073 Brown Seaweed Stock Photos and Images - 123RF How is the packaging developed? Seaweeds are used globally to make biodegradable and edible packaging materials. Polysaccharides such as agar, carrageenan and alginate are extracted from seaweeds. These have excellent film forming properties. Then the raw material is fermented without any chemical process