THE EDIBLE WATER BOTTLESCHOLARS 1100 RESEARCH PROJECT

EMOREE HEISELT, TOM ESBER, TOMMY DO

PROBLEM

• Although convenient, plastic water bottles are not always recycled

• 3 million water bottles a day are thrown away• Take up space in landfills

• Burned with trash• Causes a greenhouse effect and pollution

• Many water bottles are also littered

Molinaro, Hope. "Plastic Water Bottles Go to Waste, Says Calif. Conservation Agency.

(industry News)." Plastics Engineering. 59.7 (2003). Print.

Baumann, Kelly. "Drinking Water." Kaufmann Mercantile. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2015.

PROBLEM (cont’d)

• Harmful metal contaminants released by recycled plastic water

bottles

• Through process called leaching, plastic water bottles provide

potential threat to humans as well as environment

Paolo, La Mantia Francesco. Recycling of Plastic Materials. Toronto: ChemTec Pub., 1993. Print.

REUSABLE WATER BOTTLE PROBLEM

• Reusable water bottles contain Bisphenol A (BPA)

• increases the risk of degenerative disease

• obstructs fertility

• Experiment showed that BPA seeps into contained water

• EcoCare™ and Tritan™ are BPA free

Rob. "Debate on Bisphenol-A: A Suspect Chemical in Plastic Containers."Green Guide for Everyday Life. N.p., 26 June 2013. Web. 16 Oct. 2015

Cooper, JE, EL Kendig, and SM Belcher. "Assessment of Bisphenol a Released from Reusable Plastic, Aluminium and Stainless Steel Water Bottles." Chemosphere. 85.6 (2011): 943-7. Print.

POTENTIAL ACTION

• Get rid of plastic water bottles completely

• Australian town of Bundanoon banned plastic water bottles1

• First known city in the world

• Not very practical move

• Businesses that sell bottled water decline

• Businesses should sell reusable water bottles instead

1. Ryan, Susan. "Australians Ban Bottled Water." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 9 Aug. 2009. Web. 29 Sept. 2015.

WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE US?

• Plastic bottles are a disaster for the environment

• Reusable water bottles can have harmful effects on the human

body

HOW CAN WE TRANSPORT WATER WHILE STILL BEING ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY AND

WITHOUT RISK?

SOLUTION: OOHO! THE EDIBLE WATER BOTTLE

• Developers Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, Pierre Pasalier, and

Guillaume Couche from Skipping Rocks Lab created the “Ooho!”1

• The Ooho! is a blob-like sack of water made of biodegradable

ingredients

Wow Factor: The Ooho! is edible

1.Waxman, Olivia. "This Edible Water Blob Could Replace Plastic Water Bottles." Time. Time, 27 Mar. 2014. Web. 29 Sept. 2015

2. Owano, Nancy. "Container Rethink: Ooho Team Cooks up Water Holder." Container Rethink: Ooho Team Cooks up Water Holder. 30 Mar. 2014. Web. 29 Sept. 2015 .

HOW IT’S MADE

The Ooho is made of an originally frozen sphere of ice that is

coated in a gel consisting of a compound of sodium alginate

from brown algae and calcium chloride.1

1. Owano, Nancy. "Container Rethink: Ooho Team Cooks up Water Holder." Container Rethink: Ooho Team Cooks up Water Holder. 30 Mar. 2014.

Web. 29 Sept. 2015. <http://phys.org/news/2014-03-rethink-ooho-team-cooks-holder.html>.

IMPLEMENTATION

• The creators of Ooho received a grant from the European Union1

• They can also be made at home with DIY recipes1

1. Elvin, George. "Chapter 10: Packaging." Post-petroleum Design. Routlidge, 2015. Print.

REFERENCES

• Waxman, Olivia. "This Edible Water Blob Could Replace Plastic Water Bottles." Time. Time, 27 Mar. 2014. Web. 29 Sept. 2015. <http://time.com/40048/this-edible-water-blob-could-replace-plastic-water-bottles/>.

• Owano, Nancy. "Container Rethink: Ooho Team Cooks up Water Holder." Container Rethink: Ooho Team Cooks up Water Holder. 30 Mar. 2014. Web. 29 Sept. 2015. <http://phys.org/news/2014-03-rethink-ooho-team-cooks-holder.html>.

• Elvin, George. "Chapter 10: Packaging." Post-petroleum Design. Routlidge, 2015. Print.

• Molinaro, Hope. "Plastic Water Bottles Go to Waste, Says Calif. Conservation Agency. (industry News)." Plastics Engineering. 59.7 (2003).

Print.

• Baumann, Kelly. "Drinking Water." Kaufmann Mercantile. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2015.

• Cooper, JE, EL Kendig, and SM Belcher. "Assessment of Bisphenol a Released from Reusable Plastic, Aluminium and Stainless Steel Water

Bottles." Chemosphere. 85.6 (2011): 943-7. Print.

• Ryan, Susan. "Australians Ban Bottled Water." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 9 Aug. 2009. Web. 29 Sept. 2015.

• Rob. "Debate on Bisphenol-A: A Suspect Chemical in Plastic Containers."Green Guide for Everyday Life. N.p., 26 June 2013. Web. 16 Oct.

2015

• Paolo, La Mantia Francesco. Recycling of Plastic Materials. Toronto: ChemTec Pub., 1993. Print.

QUESTIONS?