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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*BREAKING* LONDON MARATHON REDUCED 200,000 PLASTIC BOTTLES WITH EDIBLE WATER PODS
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The London Marathon took a firm stance against plastic waste yesterday, replacing 200,000 water bottles with innovative water pods made from edible, biodegradable seaweed.
The water pouches are made by Skipping Rocks Lab, a London startup thats developing alternatives to consumer products typically delivered in plastic.
The changes and the trials were introducing for this year have the potential to change how mass participation events are delivered in future, Hugh Brasher, the marathon director, told CNN.
Tens of thousands of runners were offered water in the Ooho! pods during the race. They can be bitten to release the water inside the seaweed membrane. The outer cover can also be ingested. But if not eaten, they biodegrade in a matter of mere weeks as compared with plastic bottles that take hundreds of years to decompose.
https://www.livekindly.co/london-marathon-edible-water-pods-plastic-bottles/
Forbes
London Marathon Runners Were Handed Seaweed Pouches Instead Of Plastic Bottles
https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2019/04/29/london-marathon-runners-were-handed-seaweed-pouches-instead-of-plastic-bottles/
cbdo2007
(9,213 posts)At least they seem pretty cool.
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)underpants
(182,595 posts)who knew there there was something useful on the Facebook?
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The fascination with people skillfully, or not so skillfully, cutting down trees is one of my personal favorites.
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Karadeniz
(22,464 posts)your punishment, but justice must prevail. So here goes:you must go to Love Meow on the internet and fully read a week's worth of endearing, heartwrenching accounts of hapless felines who, with luck and internal fortitude, have been saved from lives as slaves in salt mines or an equally disastrous fate. The justice panel feels this punishment suits the crime. We trust there will be no further aspersions cast as to the complete and utter adorability of felines or canines, solo or with water pods. Sorry it had to come to this!
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uponit7771
(90,301 posts)FakeNoose
(32,568 posts)... they would biodegrade and not go to the landfill. If animals ingest them, no harm done. That's the beauty of these! They don't seem very practical though, I wouldn't carry one in my pocket, I don't think.
underpants
(182,595 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,573 posts)... it limits their consumer use, you can't stash them in your pantry for a couple months.
canetoad
(17,135 posts)Seaweed - the way of the future.