Scientists in London have invented what they claim is the world’s first fully biodegradable party balloon.<\/p>\n
Researchers at Imperial College London say standard balloons can take years to break down and can release harmful chemicals.<\/p>\n
But their new balloon biodegrades within nine months.<\/p>\n
The research was part-funded by a party planner, who wanted to reduce the impact of balloon litter on marine wildlife.<\/p>\n
The new balloon, called Bioloon, is no more expensive than a standard balloon and is easier to blow up, according to the scientists.<\/p>\n
“Regular balloons are treated with a process to make them strong and stretchy,” said 29-year-old co-inventor Juliana Cumming, a PhD researcher at Imperial. “But that process also stops them fully degrading and causes toxic chemicals to leach into the environment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scientists in London have invented what they claim is the world’s first fully biodegradable party balloon. Researchers at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[59,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-736665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-gb","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}