"I read that 50 percent of plastic is used once and then thrown away so I feel there is an urgent need to find ways to replace some of the unreal amount of plastic we make, use and throw away each day. Why are we using materials that take hundreds of years to break down in nature to drink from once and then throw away?"

Designer Ari Johnson was inspired by learning about the amount of plastic made daily to develop a plastic alternative using a renewable resource: algae!

Read more about Johnson's bioplastic work here.