Would you like a Cell Phone that BLOOMS?

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Toss that old cell phone into the dirt and you may return a few weeks later to find a flower. Scientists say they have come up with a phone cover that will grow into a sunflower when thrown away.

Some 650 million mobile phones will be sold this year, and most will be thrown away within two years, burdening the environment with plastics, heavy metals and chemicals, scientists say.

Scientists say the environmentally friendly casings will ease strain on landfills now bulging from more than 100 million handsets discarded each year, according to co-developers the University of Warwick, biodegradable-plastics maker PVAXX Research & Development and No. 3 handset manufacturer Motorola. Compost is the slow metamorphosis of grass clippings, leaves, coffee grounds, kitchen remains and other vegetable matter into fertilizer.


http://news.com.com/This+phone+blooms+into+a+flower/2110-1039_3-5473573.html

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1. Damn, did this thread sink fast.

:cry:

[liontamer]

2. I think that's really cool

I love green attempts!

[Bronco69]

3. Thanks for posting this

I was telling my partner (who works for a cell phone company by the way) and he didn't believe me. I looked for the link but I couldn't find it. Now I can show him. :-)