Biodegradable water bottle!

"A student at the Iceland Academy of Arts has invented an eco-friendly water bottle. Instead of using plastic, he used a material that decomposes easily: algae. 

Most water bottles have a life span of about 450 years, although the really stubborn ones take up to a thousand years to break down. In the US alone, consumption of these plastics reach 50 billion yearly!

That’s why product design student Ari Jonsson came up with a bottle made from algal, a product of algae. It maintains its shape as long as it’s full. Once it’s empty, though, it starts going back to the environment.

“I read that 50 per cent of plastic is used once and then thrown away so I feel there is an urgent need to find ways to replace some of the unreal amount of plastic we make, use and throw away each day,” Jónsson told Dezeen. “Why are we using materials that take hundreds of years to break down in nature to drink from once and then throw away?”

As for the taste? It doesn’t affect the flavour of your drink – unless the item is really, really old, then it’ll have a bit of a taste. Jonsson added that if you’re hungry, you could even bite into the container and it’ll be perfectly safe!

Jonsson presented his revolutionary (and hopefully Earth-saving) invention at this year’s Reykjavik design festival, DesignMarch."

Taken from lostateminor.com