Kelpy Bone

The Kelpy Bone offers the performance and longevity of plastic dog toys but is moulded from 100% natural, biodegradeable Notpla Rigid.
Notpla Rigid is a highly-innovative material pioneered in the UK. Created from sustainable, natural seaweed, it has remarkable physical properties allowing it to be used in many different formats, initially to develop alternatives to cardboard and plastic single-use packaging such as take-away food containers.
In 2024 Plastek UK’s engineers achieved a global first by producing successful injection mouldings using Notpla Rigid, guiding the company’s materials scientists to modify their formulation (still using natural ingredients) to create the Pentaward-winning, seaweed-based, biodegradable Chip Fork.
Building on this success, Plastek UK has produced injection moulding tooling for another mass-market product with considerable potential for beneficial environmental impact. The customer, although based in Australia has enlisted Plastek UK as their chosen manufacturer due to our successes
Traditionally, dog toys are destroyed quickly (requiring continual replacement and therefore bearing the carbon footprint of continual remanufacture and transport). Nylon toys have much greater longevity, but when discarded or lost can take 50 years or more to decay, depositing plastic particles into the ground as they go.
The skills of Plastek’s technical development team have allowed the creation of the Kelpy Bone - a high-performance product with excellent structural integrity (to keep that essential dog-bone shape!) and longevity, but with the ability to disappear into the earth leaving ZERO harmful trace, made from 100% Notpla Rigid, using injection moulding. Safe for dogs, safe for the planet!