A backpack made from completely natural, eco-friendly materials? Yes please! - Yanko Design

Yous wouldn't await landfills and oceans to be teeming with discarded backpacks, and they aren't single-use either, just what do you do with a damaged backpack? Let me judge… you seldom sew it yourself or get it stock-still. If a bag breaks, it gets discarded for a newer, amend bag, and Aishwarya Nair believes that the best manner to battle that mindset isn't to change information technology, but to feed it with something sustainable.

This is the Sustainable Backpack, and it'south made entirely from sustainable materials that Nair adult over the years with Studio Tjeerd Veenhoven, which she besides used in her blueprint for an eco-friendly, disposable travel kit. The Sustainable Backpack's rustic, natural construction shouldn't exist entirely shocking, believes Aishwarya, later all, we've had wicker baskets and jute bags for centuries now, and while the modern-mean solar day backpack hasn't quite seen the apply of these materials, they're virtually designed for creating containers and vessels for carrying items.

At the very center of the Sustainable Haversack is its thin bamboo framework, which gives information technology the shape and the stability it needs, upon which lies a jute cloth clad. The handbag's decorative element comes from its triangular-cut patterned flap fabricated from palm-tree-bawl. The tree bark'due south grains run horizontally, while the triangular design gives it a visual dynamism while as well allowing the bag'south flap to bend like fabric, albeit quite interestingly. The bag's straps come fabricated from treated banana bark, called for their flexibility, ability to hold weight, and their ultimate softness, which allows the wearer to comport the pocketbook with ease. Speaking of carrying bags with ease, the Sustainable Backpack uses a breathable rubberized coir lining on the inside to give the bag'south cloth its softness and natural breathability. Designed to forbid any sweat-stains on your back caused from wearing the purse for as well long, the coir lining is lightweight and comfy, comparable almost to the PU foam or neoprene pads used in bags. To structure it well, besides as maintain breathability, Nair chose to cover the coir layer with a woven cane framework, which also lends an interesting patterned element on the dorsum to lucifer the ane in front.

Ultimately, the goal of the Sustainable Haversack was to provide an all-natural alternative to bags made with woven Nylon or other polymer-based fabrics. Aside from existence a completely biodegradable product, the Sustainable Haversack's big reward is besides its power to be produced on a depression carbon footprint, not creating any hazardous chemicals or emissions during production, manufacturing, and assembly.

Designer: Aishwarya Nair for Studio Tjeerd Veenhoven