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A UK company has created a biodegradable alternative to plastic bottles which is currently crowdfunding on crowdcube.

The product is a blob of water that's made from a seaweed extract, which is actually cheaper than plastic to manufacture.

It was created by Skipping Rocks Lab, who have a goal to create waste-free packaging and stop 1 billion plastic bottles reaching the ocean each year.

The blobs have been sold from pop-ups around London but creators hope to take them global.

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Sea salps are barrel-shaped planktonic tunicate which move by pumping water through their gelatinous bodies.

They link together in long chains and are most abundant in the Southern Ocean.

A group of divers spotted a 15-foot chain in the Andaman Sea near Thailand.

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