Edible bowl creator from Cape Town munching to rid the world of plastic

We are confronted daily with reports of how plastic is polluting the environment. Sea turtles are filmed with straws in their noses, a recent study into plastic pollution concluded that half a million hermit crabs have died that confused trash for shells and polar bears  have been snapped fighting over plastic. It is everywhere, even the deepest dive ever has found a plastic bag in the Mariana Trench. The realisation that we need to do something about our consumption of plastic and how it is destroying our planet, is slowly setting in and more and more countries are banning single-use plastic. It prompted Cape Town entrepreneur, Georgina de Kock to come up with an edible food bowl, which is set to change the hospitality industry that caters for large festivals, airlines and outlets such as coffee shops - which are contributing to billions of single-use plastic items a year. Earthday has calculated that humans buy 1 million plastic bottles per minute. De Kock’s company, Munch Bowels has been awarded an international grant by Expo 2020 Dubai for her innovation. De Kock told Biznews that demand for her munchable innovations is far higher than her ability to turn out new products. - Linda van Tilburg