Recently, plastics waste is a global problem.In 2015, The amount of plastic waste was 300 million tons.And 47% of them was packages.In addition, only 12% of them was recycled.Some plastic waste will be in the sea and it takes 400 years to be broken.

I considered that among care products, there are numerous environmental issues associated with retractable packaging, such as those used for lip balm. Most of these packages are made of plastic, and especially when various materials are combined, recycling becomes challenging. While push-up tubes made of paper have been used in recent years, they come with issues such as being too thick or difficult to dispense.

How can paper packages for stick shaped care products be eco-friendly and user-friendly?

I started ideating sketches with the idea "peel the package like fruit"

I made over 60 prototypes.The last photo shows the shapes of paper rind from top.Left side shapes don’t fit to paper. I tried to find the shapes which lets user peel it, and also make these 3 kind of products into 1 group.

I made sketches to determine the shape of the glass. The shape was derived from the color of the sky, the shape of the clouds, and the impression I got from them. To determine a more detailed shape, I made a small model using clay. These models helped me to communicate the shapes to the glassmakers.