London Marathon replaces plastic water bottles with edible seaweed pods
Competitors grasp edible seaweed capsules during Vitality Big Half on March 1[ads1]0 in London. (Photo by Charlie Crowhurst / Getty Images for Lucozade Sport)
Organizers of Sunday's London Marathon made edible seaweed fines available to runners to cut down on plastic water bottles.
Volunteers released more than 30,000 of the edible Ooho tangles at the Lucozade Sport station in Mile 23.
London-based boot store Skipping Rocks Lab made pods, which are tasteless and if not consumed to break. down within six weeks, CBS reported.
The guns can be filled with a variety of fluids, but they gave Sunday was filled with Lucozade Sport, an electrolyte drink, according to CBS.
The organizers said Sunday marked the biggest test on the breasts and followed a successful trial in March at the Vitality Big Half Marathon in London.
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Edible water bottles made their appearance on a half marathon in September in Harrow, a suburb of London.
Lucy Ashe, the winner of the Harrow breed, told the BBC that the farmers offered the "perfect amount of water you have to take in a race."
People's race first place wins Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge, center, stands second place wins Ethiopia's Mosinet Geremew, left and third place wins Ethiopia's Mule Wasihun at the 39th London Marathon in London Sunday April 28, 2019. (AP Photo / Alastair Grant)
After London's marathon in London, garbage collectors picked up about 47,000 scrapped plastic bottles, the BBC reported.
The London Marathon took other steps to make this year's race greener, including reducing the number of gas stations from 26 to 19, according to the BBC.
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Eliud Kipchoge in Kenya won the 26.2 mile event for a record fourth time Sunday in the second fastest time ever. His compatriot Brigid Kosgei swept to victory with almost 2 minutes in the women's race.
Kipchoge, who resigned in the last 10 minutes, completed the course in 2 hours, 2 minutes, 37 seconds on a blusty day.
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Only he has driven a marathon faster than that, when he broke the world record in Berlin in September for a time of 2:01:39.
Associated Press contributed to this report.
