Tuesday, April 26, 2005
A Cell Phone Turned Sunflower? 130 million (yes million) cell phones are discarded in the US a year. And highly toxic stuff they are made of too. And where does this noxious stuff end up? More and more of these phones are ending up in landfills to seep their poisonous guts into ground water and soil alike. Well kudos to The University of Warwick in England. They have developed a phone exterior not only made from biodegradable plastic but that grows flowers as well. A flower seed is embedded in the case, so once the case breaks down, the seed can germinate and grow. After investigating various flowers, they found that a dwarf sunflower performed the best. As an added feature, the sunflower seed is visible through a transparent window in the case, but it won't germinate until the cell phone is planted. Well that takes care of the exterior (the exterior being the least toxic component to begin with). Now what to do with those nasty innards...
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