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The world’s longest inflatable obstacle course looks like fun! It’s 1,625 feet of climbing, ducking, squeezing and jumping on a bed of air. It was created by Hold My Shoes and V-Formation, and will be in the UK next weekend. Be on the lookout for the Beast; it will be touring the world later this year!
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James Longcroft wanted to sell bottles of water in the United Kingdom to raise money to provide clean drinking water in Africa. But the bottle had to be completely biodegradable and non-toxic to ecosystems, and inexpensive. Named Choose Water, the bottles are made of a special paper, and all profits will go to his charity, Water For Africa.
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42 big businesses in the United Kingdom have signed the UK Plastics Pledge. Corporations such as Tesco, Asda, Unilever, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo will meet goals over the next 7 years to cut out plastics. Companies have to make plastics 100% recyclable, compostable, or reusable to be sold in the supermarkets. The first step is to reduce excess plastic packaging.
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Costa Coffee is the largest coffee chain in the UK. They sell around half a billion drinks in paper cups every year, but the cups weren’t getting recycled. The solution? Costa will pay the waste management companies $106 per ton to take used paper cups to paper mills for recycling! Awesome!
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The first polar bear cub to be born in the United Kingdom in 25 years just showed its adorable little face! The cub was born in December to mom Victoria at the Highland Wildlife Park in Scotland, but it didn’t leave its mother’s den until now. At least it didn’t miss all the snow!
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The Action Hunger and Friary charity groups in the United Kingdom have developed a vending machine for homeless people. The machine will have fresh fruit, sandwiches, socks, books, toothpaste, and other essentials. The homeless population in Nottingham will get keycards to access the machine 3 times a day.
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