This project focuses on how to make packaging for single cane reeds environmentally sustainable. Reeds are the main component for many woodwind instruments and must be replaced frequently, which generates much waste. Current packaging for single reeds is both excessive and difficult to recycle. Reeds are fragile and require special care to maintain their structural integrity. A solution must take into account the needed protection for reeds, while neither sacrificing the environment or music. Research will include current material makeups and sustainability of reed packaging from scholarly articles as well as from actual packaging itself. Prototypes of alternative packaging will be created and tested
under stress to act as a simulation. Through the
principles of circular design, the aim of this project
is to develop more minimal single reed packaging
that can be reused.