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The organizers of the London Marathon will use biodegradable and edible seaweed sachets containing water instead of thousands of plastic bottles during Sunday's race, with the goal of promoting sustainability.
According to CNN, Ooho seaweed sachets are created by the Skipping Rocks Lab startup and may cost less to produce than plastic bottles. But unlike plastic bottles, sachets created from seaweed extracts decompose in less than two months.
Rodrigo Garcia Gonzalez, one of the founders of Ooho, told CNN that the company was using "the building blocks of algae" to make the capsules. "We remove everything that is green and that smells bad," he also said.
The London Marathon would mark for the first time the distribution of scholarships during a marathon.
Hugh Brasher, the event's director on Sunday, told CNN that the race would also serve energy drinks in compostable cups at several marathon stations, with the goal of promoting sustainability.
Overall, Brasher said the race would use 704,000 plastic bottles this year, a significant drop from the 920,000 bottles used in 2018.
"The changes and trials we introduce this year could potentially change the way mass participation events will take place in the future," he said.
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