Unique cups can be eaten

This unique product is made from seaweed-like jelly with mint or green tea.

Ong Tek Tjan (Indonesia) recently started selling ice cream instead of throwing away.

This is the idea of a start-up called Evoware , Indonesia, which aims to make glass or other containers of non-chemical algae that change the habit of using plastic packaging that is contaminating the environment. serious school.

"I fully support this environmentally friendly idea," Ong Tek Tjan shared with Business Insider.

Now, his store is using Evoware's cups for ice cream, though he knows it may take a long time for consumers to adapt to the new product because prices are higher than plastic.

David Christian, co-founder of Evoware, says he has come up with the idea of using packaged seaweed or food and drink after witnessing a burst of pollution in his hometown of Jakarta, home to about 10 million births. living.

"It takes about 100 years, even a thousand years, to recycle plastic waste here , " Christian added.

Made from edible seaweed in Indonesia - (Video: YouTube).

Evoware's products are likely to grow because Indonesia now produces about 10 million tonnes of seaweed annually and aims to reach 19 million tonnes by 2020.

From seaweed jelly cup first, Evoware is expanding production of other products, such as bags of coffee, spices can be biodegradable.

However, nowadays, Evoware products are mainly made by hand so it is difficult to produce in large quantities. In addition, Ello Jello ice cream can be up to 5 times more expensive than plastic products.

Evoware still has a lot to work on so that seaweed can compete with current plastic products.