Reinhard von Hennigs discusses McDonald's latest packaging innovation: the table bag, which serves as both a bag and a table. Launched at Milan Design Week, this product merges fancy design, sustainability, and a unique consumer experience. The script emphasizes the importance of packaging in driving sales and brand engagement, citing how packaging innovations stand out in global markets. Legal considerations, like patents and recyclability, also play crucial roles. The table bag exemplifies how packaging can be a strategic tool for business growth and differentiation in the competitive market.

What is Biomimicry?

Biomimicry is the approach of imitating the solutions adopted by nature through natural selection and applying those principles to human engineering.

The biomimicry approach favors natural choices that nature has tested over millions of years to understand what works best and what doesn't. Ultimately, designs that follow biometrics can make human production more efficient, resilient, and sustainable.

We see an approach to innovation that seeks sustainable solutions to human challenges by emulating nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies. The goal is to create products, processes, and policies—new ways of living—well-adapted to life on Earth over the long haul.

Nature has already solved many of the problems that society is facing. Animals, plants, and microorganisms are experienced engineers. They know what works, what's appropriate, and what lasts on Earth. After 3.8 billion years of research and development, what did not work is now a fossil, and what is around us is the secret to survival. Biomimicry is a technological-oriented approach that focuses on applying nature's lessons.

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