Circular Economy? All Banana or what? KUORI, a biodegradable Alternative Material

KUORI is a concept of a biodegradable alternative material under consideration by the recycling economy. It consists of banana peel, which gets thrown away as a by-product of our daily consumption. Bananas are among the most popular fruits in Switzerland. In contrast to also-popular domestic apples, the entire demand for bananas must be imported. This takes 20-30 days and costs a lot of energy, so why don’t we use the whole banana? The experiment serves as an approach to solve the disposal of non-recyclable products. The existing material allows cautious processing, such as sewing, cutting, gluing, laser cutting, injection moulding, granulate production and film extrusion. *The photographs shown here show the current status of the project. This project is sill in development and will be exhibited in December 2020 as a Bachelor project at the HGK Basel. For further information you can contact me via my email address @ or Instagram