p2pnet.net News:- British scientists have developed a way to make your old cell phone blossom.

Literally.

A University of Warwick team, led by Dr Kerry Kirwan, has created a mobile telephone case that ultimately, “can simply be placed in compost in such a way that just weeks later the case will begin to disintegrate and turn into a flower,” it says.

The scientists, working with hi-tech materials company PVAXX Research and Development Ltd, Motorola and Warwick’s horticultural research arm, Warwick HRI, say they’re reacting to increasing pressure to find ways of recycling discarded goods, and from customers who want to feel they’re making an “environmentally sensitive” purchase. So they made two key changes:

A special formulation of PVAXX R&D’s biodegradable polymer range was developed in conjunction with materials researchers at Warwick. It produces a high quality finish. But it also, well, rots nicely.

Secondly Warwick engineers created a small transparent window in the case in which they can embed a seed.

“The seed is visible to the environmentally aware mobile phone user but will not germinate until the phone cover or case is recycled,” they say.

HRI identified which types of seeds would perform best in this situation, opting for dwarf sunflower seeds for the first Green Phones.

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See:-
turn into a flower – Researchers compost old mobile phones & transform them into flowers, November 30, 2004

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