Drinkable Water Bubble Could Kill the Plastic Bottle Once and For All

[HAB911]

Smart design company Skipping Rocks Lab has successfully crowdfunded their next big move.

The eco-friendly water bottle of the future could be an edible, drinkable, compostable bubble. From London-based creators Skipping Rocks Lab, Ooho! is poised to be an antidote to the wasteful and manipulative world of plastic bottled water.

Since 2014, it's been surging through the UK startup scene, and already Ooho! has raised £605k in two days of crowdfunding on Crowdcube. Half of the money will be used to develop Skipping Rocks Lab machinery, and the other half will pay for research and development into making the material, which is already comparable to plastic in cost of production, cheaper, faster, and better.

https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/drinkable-water-bubble-plastic-bottle-killer

[forgotmylogin]

1. They will still have to sell it in a container.

I doubt you're just going to scoop a bunch of these out of a convenience store cooler with no labelling or pricing.

[HAB911]

2. not to mention handling by people

[forgotmylogin]

3. Although I guess...

They could sell them in a biodegradable thin cardboard container like milk.

[n2doc]

4. or Pringles n/t

[cstanleytech]

5. Depends, if they are dispensed by a machine like cans of soda it would limit the risk of

someone contaminating it either accidentally with germs or on purpose with poison.

[forgotmylogin]

6. Still...

You wanna try and catch a bloopy gel-ball spit out of a machine? I'm picturing water-balloon type shenanigans!

[cstanleytech]

7. That's going to depend on what the final design looks like, if they can make it look and feel almost

like a normal bottle there should be no problem.

[rock]

8. My daughter finds the re-usability of plastic bottles

an absolutely solid selling point. So I think she'll skip the DWB.

[HAB911]

9. We reuse as many as possible

Here in Florida every hurricane season we pack both freezers with water filled bottles. a fully loaded modern freezer will stay frozen for about 40 hours, after that the water can be used for drinking etc..

[rock]

10. Good thinking

[HAB911]

11. This little ball is an edible water bottle - CNN Video

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