This Orange Packaging Doesn’t Come From Trees. It Comes From the Orchard Floor.
At first glance, it looks like handmade paper.
Soft, fibrous, slightly uneven.
But this fruit packaging isn’t made from fresh pulp or new materials.
It’s made from fallen orange leaves, collected directly from the orchard where the fruit is grown.
The project, developed by Good Nature Co., Ltd., reframes agricultural waste as a usable material. Instead of clearing leaves away as debris, the team treats them as part of the product’s lifecycle.
Leaves fall.
Leaves become packaging.
Packaging returns to the soil.
The orchard behind the project, Preecha-Fang Orange 1991 Co., Ltd., uses the packaging not as a branding surface, but as an extension of the farm itself. The material is mixed with natural binders and formed into trays that hold the fruit during transport and sale, then biodegrade after use.
There’s no attempt to make the system invisible.
The texture remains visible.
The fibers are not smoothed away.
The packaging is also designed to age. As time passes, its color shifts, subtly reflecting freshness and reminding users that both fruit and container are temporary.
This approach has received recognition from design institutions including Core77 and Red Dot, not because it promises large-scale disruption, but because it clearly connects material, place, and use.
It doesn’t claim to replace plastic everywhere.
It doesn’t argue scalability.
It asks a quieter question:
If waste already exists, why not let it do one more job before returning to the ground?
Reference: Yanko Design
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