After reading about the amount of plastic humans waste every day Ari decided to do something about it.<\/p> \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n Then Ari asked the million dollar question: \u201cWhy are we using materials that take hundreds of years to break down in nature to drink from once and then throw away?\u201d<\/p>\n To show that he means business, he started studying the strengths and weaknesses of certain substances, eventually coming up with a solution to our plastic problem – a bottle made from algae.<\/p>\n The substance can be formed into a bottle by adding water, heat, placing the resulting jelly into a mold and then putting the mold into a freezer.<\/p>\n If the bottle remains full of water it will keep its shape, as soon as it\u2019s empty it starts to decompose \u2013\u00a0you couldn\u2019t ask for a better alternative.<\/p>\n You can even eat the bottle when you\u2019re done, making Ari\u2019s design both practical and waste free \u2013 hopefully the world takes notice.<\/p>\n Source: Boredpanda<\/a><\/p>\n![\"water-bottles-emgn-2\"](\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2016\/04\/water-bottles-emgn-2.jpg\")
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