It’s a common dilemma to find yourself overstocked with empty appliance boxes and nowhere to use them for. Well, the next time you get yourself a Samsung TV, you can DIY it into your pet’s new palace or maybe a magazine stand. Your call.
The brand recently announced that will soon introduce new eco-friendly packaging across its Lifestyle TV product portfolio in efforts to reduce the environmental footprint. It will be made from eco-friendly corrugated cardboard and will be applied to The Serif, The Frame, and The Sero, allowing customers easier recycling as well as upcycling of the cardboard boxes for creative reuse.
To give the cardboard a second life through upcycling, there’s also a dot matrix design on each side of the cardboard boxes, allowing customers to cut the boxes more easily and assemble them into various other uses, such as small end tables or houses for pets.
Included within the packaging is also a manual to guide customers on how to make household items out of the cardboard boxes, which can be accessed by scanning the QR code on the box.
Owners of The Serif who tend to put shelves and furniture around the TV can build cat houses, magazine racks and even shelves from the cardboard boxes to store household items and electronic devices, including the remote control.
Earlier this year, Samsung had already won CES 2020 Innovation Awards for its eco-packaging concept for promoting the efficient use of resources.
As part of the rollout of the new eco-packaging, Samsung and Dezeen, a British lifestyle magazine, will hold a global design competition starting April 6th, where the two companies will award the most unique and practical designs and will apply the designs into its eco-packaging manual.
For more information on the design competition, you can visit Dezeen’s website at www.dezeen.com and Samsung TV Instagram (@samsungtv).
