Criticism is regularly levelled at mobile phones for how often they are replaced and the huge surplus in dust collecting handsets that trend creates. A Dutch designer called Gert-Jan van Breugel has come up with something to combat the problem with what must be the world’s first biodegradable mobile concept.
Named the Bamboo Phone, the device can be thrown into the compost heap when you move onto your next handset from where it will sprout seeds that are contained within. The ultimate idea is that the shoots will grow to become oxygen churning bamboo trees, thus offsetting the carbon expunged during the phone’s creation.
Clever stuff and definitely a great direction to be thinking in. Sadly, the chances of this sort of thing taking off are slim in our view. Oh well, ten out of ten for effort.
(Via Trendhunter)
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