Edible water balloons displace plastic bottles

Simple and ingenious invention of the London startup Skipping Rocks Lab will eliminate the usual plastic bottles that decompose for centuries.

Why need a replacement bottles

Depending on the type of plastic, which is made from a bottle, nature will need between 100 and 1000 years eo decomposition. And this is just speculation of scientists. Plastic bottles came into use just half a century ago, and at the moment there is no confirmed scientific evidence on the exact dates of their decomposition.

Despite the best efforts of conservationists in the world today is recycled only about 10% of plastic packaging.

The remaining 90% of the bottles fall in the best case to landfills. A huge amount of plastic waste is ending up in the oceans, and leads to the death of many of its inhabitants. The problem has reached such proportions that it was even introduced a special term "plastic pollution".

What made beads

A group of scientists from the London-based startup Skipping Rocks Lab

According to the inventors, such a package can also be used for other fluids: soft drinks, alcohol and even some cosmetics.

Ball of algae are not only environmentally friendly but also cheaper plastic.

Is there a future for this scheme

The concept of edible water beads was first introduced in 2013. Since Skipping Rocks Lab team brought the idea to the state of the working prototype and launched fund-raising for the production of pellets. To date, the project has collected 800 thousand pounds sterling (more than US $ 1 million), which is two times more than its creators hoped.

Skipping Rocks Lab is going to demonstrate the advantages of his invention at major sporting and entertainment events. One of these events is to become London marathonParticipants who drank during the race about 750 thousand bottles of water.

The enthusiasm with which investors have supported the project, as well as a growing fashion for environmental awareness allow us to hope that the water beads Ooho! will be available in the near future.