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lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts)
Fri Apr 21, 2017, 08:19 PM Apr 2017

​This Edible Water Bubble Wants to Replace Plastic Bottles

What if you could plop a strange orb of water into your mouth instead of keeping a water bottle on deck? That’s the goal of Skipping Rocks Lab, a London startup seeking to prevent 1 billion water bottles from reaching the ocean each year. Their product has a name appropriate for the delight of its novelty: ooho!

The ooho! is a ball of water surrounded by a biodegradable, edible membrane made of seaweed extract. You can tear it open and pour it in your mouth or simply eat the whole thing.

http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/edible-water-bottle-replace-plastic?amp

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​This Edible Water Bubble Wants to Replace Plastic Bottles (Original Post) lordsummerisle Apr 2017 OP
Great idea that I can see happening. Duppers Apr 2017 #1
Research it throughly madokie Apr 2017 #2
The plastic water bottles are out of control n/t lordsummerisle Apr 2017 #3
I just started using the Brita Stream Pitcher yesterday nuxvomica Apr 2017 #4
May I suggest OKIsItJustMe Apr 2017 #5

madokie

(51,076 posts)
2. Research it throughly
Sat Apr 22, 2017, 11:00 AM
Apr 2017

and if it proves out to be true then I see no problem with it.

Put a little viagra in the seaweed extract and it'll fly off the shelves You do realize I'm half ass kidding, right?

nuxvomica

(12,422 posts)
4. I just started using the Brita Stream Pitcher yesterday
Sun Apr 23, 2017, 09:22 AM
Apr 2017

The pitcher costs $29.99 and filters are $6.99 each and will do 40 gallons, which equates to $94.40 in the kind of bottled water I buy. The breakthrough for me is you don't have to wait for the water to filter like the old Brita pitchers. I normally go through two or more 12-packs of Poland Spring 700ml bottles a week. Of course, this is on top of what I pay the town for my water, about $80 a year.

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