CEO Hans Arentsen of Dutch company PaperFoam confirmed today that Apple has ordered “millions of paperfoam packages” for the new iPhone 3G.
The Dutch company which was founded in 1998 and makes use of potato starch in the injection moulding process allowing a 90-percent reduction in carbon footprint in comparison to plastic. The product consists of 100-percent natural resource, either potato starch or Tapioca starch.
The company CEO didn’t give away much information but did state that the iPhone 3G will ship in a cardboard box with a fully-recyclable starch tray on the inside.
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