Starbucks will get rid of its green plastic straws by 2020, joining other brands in moving towards environmentally friendly products and packaging. People want to ditch plastic, and expect brands to help them, using their buying power to elicit corporate responsibility.

Any child can tell you that cake mixture licked off of your fingers often tastes more delicious than the finished product. So design studio Michel/Fabian has created the Goûte spoon, which adapts the usual design of a spoon to replicate the sensation of licking your digits.

As more plastic, paper and cardboard ends up in our rivers, oceans and landfill, people are looking at ways that they can cut back on packaging. How can shoppers achieve this and what is the grocery industry doing about it?

Bottled water is set to outsell soda for the first time in the US in 2017, but of the 1,500 plastic bottles consumed every second, just 30% are recycled. Design-centric brand Soma offers an alternative in the form of reusable glass vessels for filtered water that are equal parts eco and luxury.