By Kimberley Mok / Source: TreeHugger

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Disposable plates and cutlery are a real pain on the environment — ending up in landfills, oceans or worse. Designers have come up with a variety of solutions, creating disposable tableware from plant-based materials, dough or even orange peels. Tackling the issue of food waste and disposables simulataneously, Michela Milani and Italian design company WhoMade created Foodscapes, a collection of biodegradable tableware made out of food scraps.

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While your first impulse with kitchen waste is to compost it, the designers’ concept with Foodscapes was to add another layer of usefulness to the process, transforming uneaten food into a functional design that has been molded in the image of a seed, and which can hold dry food.

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According to the designers, there are no additives, preservatives, colorants, thickeners, correctors, and artificial agents in the product prototypes, which were primarily made out of either carrot peels or peanut shells.

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