CHEMO-EDIBLE PLASTIC BOTTLES

ABSTRACT:

# Due to the fact that 1 Million Plastic Bottles Bought Every Minute and it is
bit clear that:

#Plastic waste is one of many types of wastes that take too long to
decompose. Normally, plastic items can take up to 1000 years to
decompose in landfills

#Therefore it is necessary to make some advancement in plastic bottles, so

here are some advanced methods which can actually create bottle which
hold the property of:

1) Edible nature with bottle shape

2) Zero effect on environment
3) Easy to carry
4) Easy to manufacture

METHOD AND METHODOLOGY:

Just think of drinking water but without container, just think of edible
membrane that popped into your mouth and bit down on. It tasted, well, just
like water, because this innovation was made just from water and two
tasteless chemicals, and one more process to obtain its bottle shape using
coolant.
STEP 1:

# This process come in action , using a process called spherification. Using

the reaction of these two chemicals, it becomes easy to create a tough
membrane on the outside of the water that held it in place. In effect, the
water became its own water bottle.

# The first ingredient of our edible water bottle is Sodium Alginate, usually
derived from seaweed. This is a long-chain carbohydrate that is soluble in
water. In the original plant, it is used to store sugars created by
photosynthesis, much like the carbohydrates in bread. When Sodium
Alginate is dissolved in water, these long-chain carbohydrates float around
on their own: they don't connect to each other. That's because poking out
from these long chains is a branch of carbon and oxygen atoms, which
chemists call an anionic group, because the oxygen atoms poking out of it
have a slight negative charge. The sodium ions are attracted to this,
because they have a positive charge. Sodium is monovalent, meaning that
it wants to bond to just one of these carbon and oxygen branches at a time.

So, to create a water sphere, you dissolve Sodium Alginate in water, then
drop some of this solution into another solution of Calcium Chloride. As the
two solutions come into contact, the Alginate and Calcium ions combine,
creating a gel surface that encapsulates the water. After letting this set for a
bit (so the gel surface can properly form), you remove the drop from the
Calcium Chloride solution, and you have a fully formed water sphere, made
from nothing but water and the two chemicals This sphere will hold the
water in place, but it can be easily bitten through or pierced. And the best
part is that the membrane itself is edible: it is, after all, just water and a
couple of tasteless chemicals. You can pop the entire thing in your mouth,
and eat it, gel membrane and all.
This technique is causing something of a stir in manufacturing and water
bottling circles: it could provide a waste-free way to contain and transport
water: if the entire package is edible, you could just pop the whole thing in
your mouth to have a drink. It is still a way away from replacing the water
bottle on store shelves, though: the gel membrane breaks down over time,
and it isn't as tough as plastic.

STEP 2:

To make these edible bottles in the shape of original bottles, it is mandatory

to create this reaction in the container whose shape is similar to the bottle
and we try to make its surface temp very low.

This low degree temperature wall made reaction to starts from the surface
and hence create the shape of reaction into bottle.

Otherwise if this process is not come in action then there are some
chances that the shape is going to be sphere as its volume is minimum and
due to the equal forces being acted make this water and chemical
reactants.

GOAL:
# My aim is to replace the plastic bottles with the edible bottles as these
bottles are eco friendly as well as create zero pollution while their
formation.

BY: AKASH SRIVASTAVA