Discarded Cell Phone Case = Seed Germination

If you're using our Seed Germination Gizmo in your science classes, an interesting real world tie in can be found in this recent news story as reported by CNN:

Materials company Pvaxx Research & Development, at the request of U.S.-based mobile phone maker Motorola (MOT.N), has come up with a polymer that looks like any other plastic, but which degrades into soil when discarded.

Researchers at the University of Warwick in Britain then helped to develop a phone cover that contains a sunflower seed, which will feed on the nitrates that are formed when the polyvinylalcohol polymer cover turns to waste.

Is that cool or what?