The Life Box is a normal cardboard box that anyone can use to send goods in, and to receive goods in. It can also be recycled, like any other cardboard box, but recycling would actually be doing it injustice and wasting it's purpose! For the Life Box can be torn up into pieces and planted to grow 100 trees.
I'm not even kidding, each box is made up from recycled paper lace embedded with 100 or so tree seeds and each seed is dusted with mycorrhizal fungal spores. Thanks to the fungus, when planted, the seeds sprout.
Right now these boxes are only available on a small scale, ranging from $50 to $70 each, but they can be purchased for business (only 100 boxes at a time though). But regardless of the price, imagine what this could do for our environment. If one tree survives for over 30 years, it'll suck up a literal tonne of carbon.
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