Cell Phone Turns Into Sunflower

Scientists say they have come up with a cell phone cover that will grow into a sunflower when thrown away.

“Materials company Pvaxx Research & Development, at the request of U.S.-based mobile phone maker Motorola (MOT.N), has come up with a polymer that looks like any other plastic, but which degrades into soil when discarded.

Researchers at the University of Warwick in Britain then helped to develop a phone cover that contains a sunflower seed, which will feed on the nitrates that are formed when the polyvinylalcohol polymer cover turns to waste.”

More than 650 million cell phones will be sold this year with a good portion of those being thrown away in two years. One thing worth pointing out is that the article only talks about the cover being biodegradeable, but what about the rest of the phone?

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