By 2025, all new Ikea products will come in plastic-free packaging, with the exception of some food products that need to use it for food safety and to prevent food waste.

Mushroom and other plant-based packaging, on the other hand, uses a fraction of the energy required to make plastic, produces minimal carbon emissions, and naturally breaks down into the Earth ...

IKEA, which every year spends over $1 billion on approximately 920,000 tons of packaging material, already has significantly decreased the amount of plastic used in its packaging.

The new packaging is made from mycelium, better thought of as mushroom roots. It’s a well-known organic building material, and now Ikea is planning on phasing it in as its packing material of ...

Ikea plans to replace polystyrene with packaging made from mushrooms The eco-friendly alternative can be 'grown' into made-to-measure boxes While polystyrene is difficult to recycle, fungi ...

IKEA is increasingly designing its furniture with packaging and manufacturing in mind from the start. An IKEA store in Moscow. Photo: yuri kochetkov/European Pressphoto Agency.

STOCKHOLM – Ikea has announced plans to phase out plastic from its consumer packaging by the year 2028. The Swedish furniture giant says it aims to reduce waste and pollution while driving the ...

Ikea has revealed it will phase out plastic from consumer packaging by 2028 as it moves towards only using renewable or recycled materials. Home; News.