Sustainable ivory

[tetra101]

Attached is a solar powered garden lantern made from reclaimed bovine bone infused with recycled glass.

Eccosys, based in the UK, are currently developing products made from animal by-products, which would otherwise be incinerated. The strong, light bone material is processed locally using colonies of demistid beetles and only requires minor chemical sterilisation.

Eccosys’s goal is to find applications for the 2 million tonnes of bone which is incinerated every year in Europe – at great cost to the rural economy - despite most of which being safe for human consumption.

Im curious how people feel about an object of this nature?

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[mybarnconversion]

Sensible, thought-provoking and ghoulish ... a heady mix!

[Corey]

This is more like the plausable future to me. The key is only use the excess of other industry. DO NOT go raise animals just for the bones.

An example of a green tech going bad is the sawdust pelet fireplaces the demand and use exceeded the sawdust waste from industry so now they are growing fuel (corn as an example) just to be burned in the fire place. defeating the green nature of using waste product from one industry as a fuel for the wood pelet fire places.

Just because a tech is green dosn't mean it will stay that way if demand for it exceeds resources available. In this case waste from another industry.