Biodegradeable cell phone covers

Juniper Foo | Dec 10, 2004

Here's a blooming good idea. Toss that old handphone cover onto a compost pile (or potted soil for HDB sky dwellers), and weeks later this morphs into a sunflower, thanks to a seed embedded in the cover. The idea, still under germination in the labs of the University of Warwick, biodegradable plastics maker PVAXX Research & Development and Motorola, seeks to ease the burden of recycling on our much-abused planet which faces some 650 million phones being sold this year alone. Why stop at flowers? We could soon be growing our own edible vegetables and bulbs all from discarded cell phone casings.

Image from the University of Warwick

Price: N.A.
Availability: Q2 2005
Device: Biodegradable polymer covers
Basic specs: N.A.

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Anonymous says...
My name is shauna mclean and i go to Burnt hills Ballston lake high school. I am doing a research project on biodegradable cellphones and how they can better the environment so i was wondering if there was anyway that i could contact someone to possibly get a sample to use in my project as a display to show what work is being done and how they look.

Apr 09, 2005 22:53