Tomato boxes made from tomato plants

Cardboard for tomato boxes from tomato plant fibres. Not only the contents (tomatoes), also the box is produced by the tomato plant. How is that for environmentally friendly! Any way, it is the winner of the Packaging Europe Sustainability Awards 2016 in the biobased packaging category. The company, Solidus Solutions, together with other companies in the Westland (agricultural area in the Netherlands) invented the cardboard tomato boxes. The production of these boxes also involves recycled paper. Remarkable fact is that for 1 hectare of tomatoes 1 hectare of tomato plants is necessary for the production of the tomato boxes.