Hey you! Is your carpet boring? Dead? Is it comprised of nothing more than fibers made of useless plastic that absorbs your Cheetos crumbs like a black hole? Welllll, worry no more, citizen! Thanks to the work of Japanese flower based artist Makoto Azuma, we now have a biodegradable moss planter carpet. This carpet was featured in the 2009 Milan Furniture Fair within the Tokyo Fiber Sensware exhibition. It is created by planting moss on another carpet.
The science: This is no ordinary plastic fiber, but a plant-derived plastic that can be decomposed by microorganisms; though it will take 10 years to fully decompose into carbon dioxide and water.
Even more science: Basically the moss will eat the plastic over time as its food, while removing excess C02 from your house. It doesn’t say anything about walking on this carpet, and from the looks of it, that’s probably not a feature.
At this point, it appears to just be a show piece, plus something to help clean up the air along the way. Those of you with dogs should be careful though, expect lots of urine mistakes. Heh. Urine.