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Single-use plastic bottles are a huge environmental problem. 90,000 of them are thrown away every minute, and it's estimated that 8 million metric tonnes of plastic makes its way into the ocean each year. Simply put, the consumption of non-renewable resources for single use bottles and the amount of waste generated by this practice is profoundly unsustainable.
But London based start up Skipping Rocks Lab might just have the solution. The company won last years Lexus Design Award for their product Ooho – an edible water 'bottle'.
The idea for the product comes from the culinary process of spherification. A technique employed by molecular gastronomers, often used for deserts, sauces or cocktails!
The small Ooho blobs store water in an edible double membrane made of calcium and brown algae, which makes them completely safe to consume. Each blob contains about a sip of water, but the start-up have suggested that blobs could be bunched together and coated in another layer of membrane – making them similar to orange segments in a skin.
Ooho designer Pierre Paslier, described the product as like a "man-made fruit".
Each blob costs about 20c to manufacture and they've been developed under a creative commons license; meaning that anyone else is free to develop the concept. You could even make them in your own kitchen!
Another past recipient of the Lexus Design Award was Abeer Seikaly with her sustainable tents.
Read about them here: Weaving a home: How one woman can help millions globally
What do you think of the water pods? Would they make it into your lunch box? Let us know in the comments section below!
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