Rewood

Award Type
Shortlisted
Award Year
2025
Designer
Narumol Charoencharatkun

Transforming wood waste into sustainable protective packaging.

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is widely used to protect fragile products, yet it’s difficult to recycle and contributes to long-term environmental waste. Rewood offers a sustainable alternative: a biodegradable material made from sawmill waste. Strong, lightweight, and fully compostable, it provides the same reliable protection as EPS without the ecological cost.

Instead of being discarded or burned, wood waste is transformed into a valuable resource. Rewood performs like conventional packaging but breaks down naturally, avoiding landfill and incineration. Its design proves that sustainability and performance can coexist without compromise.

By turning industrial byproducts into new materials, this solution demonstrates how circular design can drive real change. It helps companies and consumers make better environmental choices while showing that smart design doesn’t require compromise. Rewood stands as a simple yet powerful example of how waste can be transformed into something genuinely useful - showing that protecting products and protecting the planet can go hand in hand.

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