Japanese Eco Packaging - Tofu In Balloons

Here's the flip side of the wasteful packaging demonstrated last week:

What you're seeing is a clever way of packaging food that leaves behind a minimal footprint. Kamakura-Komanchi (site is in Japanese), has taken to packing their tofu inside balloons. The elastic material of a balloon can be stretched to accommodate products of different shapes and sizes, but once it's opened, it shrinks back down to a tiny bit of waste. If biodegradable balloons are used and the clips can be recycled, this might be the most ecologically friendly way of packaging that I've seen to date.