Can Wheat Fix Plastic?

Can Wheat Fix Plastic?

Author

Özge Kayaaslan

As designers, we’re constantly told to chase sustainability. But sometimes, the most responsible thing we can do is pause—and question.
Is turning wheat into water bottles really a climate solution?
Are we reducing waste, or just rebranding it?
And if demand spikes, will we end up farming wheat not to feed people, but to manufacture “eco-products”?

But then there’s S’wheat, a company that doesn’t just anticipate those critiques—it embraces them.

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