End Of Plastic Bottles

[fender62]

hope it takes off, sounds like a great idea..
http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/791456/water-bottle-edible-alternative-recycling-science

[emmie]

good for long distance events like the marathon. Where do you stash them though, with a water bottle you can shove it in your backpack, bag and forget about it till you need some water, you can't stuff these in your pocket.
good idea though, if it saves billions of bottles being thrown away.

[trt]

Anything they try, is better than not trying to do something, as our Planet, including our Oceans, is becoming an enormous dustbin, and we have to stop burying our waste in landfill sites, and come up with a better solution.

[emmie]

trt
totally agree, so this could be the way forward.

[douglas9401]

"The concept still faces several challenges - for example, ensuring the blobs remain clean before consumption."

Another example from the inventors, heard on Radio Scotland this morning is the fact that they can't stop seepage so a container is needed. No mention of what it would be made of but glass is too dangerous, especially for active sport and wood gives splinters.

Plastic then?

[Old_Geezer]

I reckon more enthusiasm than is warranted.

"The concept still faces several challenges - for example, ensuring the blobs remain clean before consumption."

Precisely, I'd not want to eat the container, don't know where it's been, who's handled it, what dusty shelf it sat on, nor how many rats widdled over it at the warehouse.

As long as it is bio-degradable that'll do.

[anotheoldgit]

Do what we did before plastic bottle, make them out of glass, and put a deposit on them for their return.

Many is the time us lads would go around collecting them to take back and get the deposit on them, so we had enough money to get in the cinema.

Some even had glass marble stoppers, came in handy for a game of marbles.

Life was so much simpler back then.

[ummmm]

Glass is okay if it's going to be in the house otherwise you'd have a load of kids walking round with weapons.

It was mentioned on TV recently that they do they same with plastic. Put an extra 10p on a bottle so kids will return them...but where will they put all the recycling bins?

[ToraToraTora]

if they can get rid of plastic bottles in favour of biodegradable material, great but I don't fancy eating a bubble of gunge for a drink.

[anotheoldgit]

ummmm
I was once in a South of France supermarket, and in there there was a type of a conveyor belt on which one placed their deposit bottles, and the equivalent cash was automatically deposited to you in a tray.

[Mamyalynne]

I think in their present form these are ideal for certain situations - sports events, festivals etc.

I'm sure it will be expanded upon.