Created by designers Pietro Gaeli, Simone Caronni and Paolo Stefano Gentile, Peel Saver is a potato starch and fibre-based food packaging that is 100% biodegradable.
Comprised solely of french fry production waste, the packaging is designed to be used and composed.
“Traditional street food packaging has a very short time of use, immediately becoming hard to recycle. Peel Saver is a sustainable remedy whose aim is to replace plasticised paper packaging,” said Caronni. “Fries are thus served inside the same peel that originally contained and protected the potato, returning to the natural state in which it was.”
To create the packaging, potato peels are macerated and dried before being placed into moulds.
“Peel Saver shows a different point of view, a return to simplicity and to what nature already designed for us,” said the designers. “We are satisfied with the process above all from the point of view of simplicity of concept and sustainability. Today it is now a necessity that products and packaging are sustainable and recyclable, this project is a proof of how much can still be done in this direction.”
