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Agrochemicals: a global issue

Nowadays, not only do agrochemicals represent a problem which affects the health and well-being of people but also the environment globally.  In Argentina, since 1996, more and more agrochemicals are being used, as well as GM crops with the aim of optimizing harvests and generating products with fewer problems during cultivation. The reason why most farmers are in favor of the use of agrochemicals is due to the effective prevention and control of pests, in addition to the fact that they provide an improvement in yields.

Owing to our concern about getting to know really what we are eating, we started think ing of a way to mitigate the impact caused by this problem. Despite the fact that chemicals in the agricultural field are present throughout the world and eradicating their use in large companies is almost impossible, we believe that change begins from individuality and local action.


Our idea:

In order to address the problem introduced, we decided to design an app called “Garden in community”, with the aim of promoting the development of community gardens in the district of Almirante Brown. After doing some research and touring our city, we discovered that very few people have notion on this subject. Therefore, our challenge was to find a way to encourage people to collaborate with the production of organic gardens, not only to raise awareness about the production and consumption of healthier food, but also to achieve better nutrition in society. and contact with nature.

Through this shared gardens it would be possible to reduce the environmental impact as there would be a decrease in intensive agriculture and transgenic foods, together with encourage current and future generations to lead a healthier life. Green spaces would be used and help would be provided to public kitchens. It is a non-profit app which can be downloaded by anyone who wishes to participate.


Explanation of the project and prototype:

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ECO PARKING

Atmospheric pollution:

Air pollution is not only a current problem, but it is also global. Pollution is directly related to the burning of fossil fuels such as oil because this releases extremely harmful particles. This worsened in the eighteenth century after the industrial revolution as it increased the burning of the above. From the middle of the 20th century, the changes accelerated, due to the increase in production in factories.

This problem is not only focused on big cities, but affects the whole world in the same way, this being a global problem. Global temperatures are rising faster and faster, melting the poles, even rising sea levels. The ozone layer is being destroyed, having the passage of cosmic rays that are very harmful to all living beings, not just humans. In cities, the accumulation of many gases and particles, which manifest as smog, creates an environment that is highly harmful to health.



Problematic:

The problem that we decided to combat is air pollution generated by soot, which is caused by the combustion of vehicles. Exposure to high levels of air pollution can cause many adverse health outcomes. For example, soot enters the respiratory system and then the blood, causing cardiovascular accidents.

About 25% of all energy-related CO2 emissions come from transportation. These emissions produce approximately 400,000 premature deaths per year due to poor air quality (AQUAe Fundación, 2018).

Air pollution can be irreversible for life on the planet, therefore, work must be done to mitigate air pollution.

Polluting particles PM2.5 and PM10 (for its acronym in English), are those particles that are suspended in the air, such as dust, soot, smoke and aerosol. Large amounts of particles are typically emitted by vehicles, among others.

For this reason we decided to face this problem, analyzing mitigation measures and looking for possible solutions that help us combat this problem.

Our idea:

Our project is an intelligent parking lot whose objective is to mitigate the damage caused mainly by vehicles. It would be possible since the cars will travel a shorter distance and will not be turning around inside a parking lot looking for a place to park. When a person is about to enter the parking lot, before entering, they scan a QR code with their cell phone, which directs them to our website. Once inside, you will be shown the path to follow to park your vehicle in an available spot. In turn, the parking lot will have LED lights above each parking space that will indicate the availability or not of a space.

In this way, we reduce the largest air pollutant that is soot, generated by the anthropic action of man, since exposure to high levels of air pollution can cause many adverse health outcomes and generate a great environmental impact.


Other solutions:

Some possible solutions proposed by the experts include the use of public transport or bicycles (also promoted by the State) and thus reduce the number of cars that burn fossil fuels circulating on the street, since as Xavier Querol analyzes, most of the polluting particles come from here

María Victoria Toro Gómez explains how technology can help prevent the environmental impact from being greater, and the Argentine government is using different measures to achieve this. What is being done is the certification of emissions of new vehicles, that is, to restrict the carbon footprint that new vehicles may have, in addition to controlling the production of such so that it is not so polluting.

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Microplastics

Microplastics, imperceptible threat

Microplastics are plastics whose size ranges from 3 to 5 nanometers. To keep in mind, 1 nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter. These are products of the erosion and degradation of plastic and can end up in the seas and even in the air we breathe. If we breathe it, it will end up in our lungs, and if it ends up in the sea it will most probably end up in a fish that will then be eaten by someone. In addition, some microplastic particles are so small that they can even pass through the pores of our skin.

Microplastics are a global problem that is increasing with the production of plastic.


Proposed solution

After researching, we concluded that the most direct and easiest way to reduce the amount of microplastics is to simply reduce the amount of plastics. Plastics are generated by man, so it falls on our hands to reduce their quantity.

The best way to reduce the amount of plastic is through responsible consumption and avoiding the use of plastic, however this is not always possible, so another option is to recycle. However, this can be a tricky process as people sometimes get confused as to which bin the items they want to throw belong to. This is why we ideated a smart bin, which we integrated with a strong artificial intelligence which was trained to distinguish between different types of waste. Through this, the sensor can predict what type of waste was thrown away.

Also, once the plastics are taken to the recycling center, not all the plastic is recycled. That is why we put those leftover plastics in a in a container, near the recycling plants, with silkworms and zophobas morio. This are worms that can break down polyethylene and polystyrene, which are two of the most widely used plastics in the industry.

It should be clarified that after finishing the project, we found out that it already existed. However, ours is different from the other one in that it only allows one residue at a time while ours allows many. The other smart bin is called bin-e.


Conclusion

We really think that it is necessary to reduce the amount of plastics in the world to make sure that microplastics never become a real problem. The reduction of plastics guarantees our future and will be a great step to continue advancing in the future.

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Electronic Pollution in Argentina

Electronic contamination is a serious problem nowadays which affects a lot of countries and the people within them. It generates diseases, that can be mortal, and it also harms the environment. We investigated the impact that this problem generates in Argentina and we found that it is the third country in South America, followed by Mexico and Brazil, that generates the most electronic waste with around 300 thousand tons generated per year in a total of 41.8 million tons worldwide. The materials that compose the batteries for these electronics that are discarded turn toxic once they reach their estimated life. We took into account that the majority of people are used to throwing those products once they turn obsolete or break when the best solution for that kind of situation would be to recycle or reuse them in a way. Given that half of these products are thrown into open-air garbage dumps it is inevitable to think that they are going to contaminate. For this reason, we decided to confront this problematic, first by analyzing which are the components that turn toxic and then looking for possible solutions that would help us battle this problematic.

Problematic

When we began investigating the environmental impact that electronic products have over the environment we realized that this was a serious matter. E-waste posses components such as lead, mercury, cadmium, selenium, arsenic, and lithium among others. These six components are inoffensive during the life period of the devices, due to them being contained by plaques, circuits, connectors or cables but once they are discarded in landfills they react with water and organic matter, liberating toxics to the ground and to the sewers. Due to its non-biodegradable nature, these wastes are dangerous to the environment and the health of people.

The main problem that Argentina has is the quantity of waste in general that is produced in a year and how that contaminates. This waste is not separated nor treated and the fact that they are exposed to the sun, because of being in open-air garbage dumps, and other toxics makes them react with one another resulting in even more contamination.

  • Cadmium: affects mainly kidneys and bones
  • Mercury damages the central nervous system
  • Hexavalent chromium: carcinogenic (tumors).
  • Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) releases highly toxic dioxins and furans.
  • Nickel in its oxidized, sulfated or soluble form causes cancer and Respiratory problems
  • Zinc also affects health.
  • Lithium can cause respiratory failure

Objective

The main objective that we are looking for is to mitigate the damage that we are dealing with our ecosystem. By starting with the municipality, recycling or trying to reuse waste before discarding it. Beyond that, we are looking for ways in which we can make people aware of the damage that these wastes are causing to the environment and that we have to act as fast as we can or else this will turn out to be a irredeemable damage.

EcoHorno

Process

Major supermarkets of the are will be utilized as collection points, where people are going to leave their broken electronic devices or home appliances. They cannot surpass the 2 meters of width or length. Garbage trucks specialized in transporting these kinds of devices, are going to collect once a week the waste left at the collection points. The trucks will take the discarded devices to the factory where the EcoHorno is located.

The truck will deposit the electronic devices and home appliances in a conveyer belt. The magnet placed parallel to the conveyor belt attracts the objects with metal, separating metals from plastics. Components are separated from both metal and plastic objects, removing everything that is toxic or becomes toxic with heat. The metals and plastics are separated according to their classification. They merge separately according to their classification. For the different temperatures in which the components melt:

Copper: 1,050 ° C
Aluminum: 650 ° C
Iron: 1,535 ° C
Silver: 960 ° C
Gold: 1,062 ° C
Bronze: 920 ° C
Nickel: 1,455 ° C
Platinum: 1,770 ° C
Lead: 340 ° C

The metal and liquid plastic, the pig iron, come out from under the furnace and goes to the trucks with the thermal insulators. This takes away the problem of removing the ones inside the oven. Then those trucks are sent to factories that use those metals and/or plastics. The furnace would be used a whole day only for metals, after its last use that day it is cleaned for the next day to use it for plastics. The air purifier is connected directly at the tip of the oven to the floor, where the appliance is going to be, and from the appliance, it goes to the plastic container, which after a little rest is taken out by a ventilation.

Disponibility

The furnace measures 6 meters high and 4 meters in diameter and is made of refractory bricks covered by a steel layer Its production capacity is 1000 tons per day. It has a hot air inlet on the sides of the oven towards the oven that reaches a temperature of 2000 ° C. The temperature is adjustable.

Conveyer belt.
 10 meters long and 1 meter wide
 Kind: modular
 Material: Iron
 Width: 160 mm

 

 

Industrial Air Purifier
 Brand: TROTEC
 Model: TAC 1500 S
 Length: 61cm
 Width: 36cm
 Height: 40cm

 

 

 

Industrial magnet
 Brand: DIMET
 Model: IMG10
 1 meter long A
 40 cm wide B and
 65 cm high C
 Weight 1300kg
 Weight supported 30 tons

Other Solutions

Other solutions that we found to combat electronic contamination are the following:

Biodegradable batteries: they invented single-use biodegradable batteries based on paper and other organic materials such as beeswax, cellulose and organic redox species such as quinones.

Reuse and revaluation: E-Trash, A group of students, professors and alumni of the University of La Plata carry out a project that consists of gathering electronic devices and trying to repair them, helping not only the environment but also helping disadvantaged institutions of the area giving them those electronic devices that are already in conditions to use. Those that there is no way to repair them and that they are reused are sent to a company with environmental certification for their final and safe disposal, thus avoiding their final stage in burns and garbage dumps. This type of projects is Circular Economy, where things that were broken or malfunctioning are reused.

Green points: In the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, the number of existing green points was tripled and mobile green points were implemented. What is a green point? They are places where people take Waste Electrical and Electronic Devices to be recycled and properly managed the dangerous components they contain.

Also, a big step forward would be to implement new laws so that each state residence has a safe and well-maintained recycling area. Sweden follows this law and nowadays has managed to recycle 99% of its waste making it one of the greenest countries next to Norway.

 

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Plastic trash

Plastic pollution, millions of tons of plastic are disposed per year. This affects the marine fauna mainly because most of the plastics are thrown into our oceans where there is a huge percentage of life. We are killing hundreds of animals when we dispose of plastics improperly. In addition, plastics take hundreds of years to degrade or thousands of years depending on the plastic, so when one of us throws a plastic this will stay there for a long time. Not only aquatic animals are being affected due to plastics, we also because plastic are poisons, we are poisoning ourselves. The recycling of plastic is not the solution for this dangerous waste, we must eliminate it, but since this will be much longer and more complicated,we have to start with something and the first step will be the recycling of these.

The problem is the lack of education since they are children,this mean since they start to become aware and realize things. Where is that? in kindergarden. There are missing campaigns so that these children are recorded in the head what we are doing when we do not recycle, the animals that we are killing and everything that happens with those wastes. If it is possible for them to become aware since they were little they transmitted them to their parents and then to their children. Their children are going to transmit to their children and so on, nobody said that the problem of recycling will be solved from one day to the next but these children will be our future, and what better than that future is one in which recycling is performed?

Our proposal of solution is to go and give a class in kinder gardens with games and songs to make them understand what is happening and how they can help. Also our prototype is going to be left in the kinder garden for them to use and throw away their plastic and thus feel that they are recycling and helping. We also get drums and we will give these to decorate and take them to their homes to use them as dasbins and the idea is that these children transmit them to their parents and their friends and start recycling from young.

The prototype consists in a trash can made with plastic bottles and that can only be discarded from plastics and then recycled or reused, but will definitely not be released into the oceans and, therefore, the percentage of animals that will be reduced will be reduced. They die every day because of these plastics that are considered a dangerous waste. In addition, the bottle caps will also be reused to make the caps of the remedies, for example.

Our prototype will have a long-term effect because the problem of waste pollution can not be solved overnight, but if we all help our future generations, they will live in a country where everything is recycled and plastics are no longer there. In the oceans there will be less and less garbage, the marine fauna will be less affected by what we do but for this to happen we have to use our prototype to separate the plastics and the colored buckets to separate the other waste and when want to give a bag say NO and so make an impact.

 

 

 

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EcoRío de La Plata

Environmental problematic: River Plate contamination.

The River Plate, located in south-west South America, originates from the junction between The Paraná and the Uruguay rivers. It flows between Argentina and Uruguay and into the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of the most important rivers in America. It was born pure and clean but now it is used as a trash can. It was formed 2,4 million years ago. The River Plate, in its whole extension, suffers from contamination from the most varied origins, which affects the 15 million people living at its coasts. The river, that in previous centuries contained clear water, is now a deposit of residual water from the industrial and agricultural areas. The causes of its contamination originate at the urban and industrial effluents, which do not receive adequate treatment, in this case, they are the Medrano and Luján Reconquista creeks, and the Riachuelo. There, you can see disturbances in the natural environment, caused by population growth, an increase in urbanization and of agricultural, ranching and industrial activities. This is reflected in the decrease of water quality, the habitats disturbance and the decrease of biodiversity, in the basin as well as in the coast.

Industrial Effluents Treating Plant

PREVIOUS STEPS
  • Step 1: Get authorization to check if factories and industries have a non-treated water disposal which falls into the streams that flow into the River Plate.
  • Step 2: After verifying whether industries have water disposals that fall into the streams that flow into the River Plate, a law is established which compels factories and industries to install this industrial purification treatment. If the law is not complied, fines will have to be paid, or industries might even be closed down.  
    1. Step 3: Installation of the treatment in each of the contaminating industries.

      Purification Plant

      1   Pre-Treatment:  The polluted water flows through metallic nets that retain the solid elements, which are recolected and are then carried to waste treatment plants, the water continues through the process.

      • Decanting basin: The liquids go to decanting basins, where solid elements are isolated and decant due to gravity, although the process is accelerated by using aluminium sulfate.
      • Purification: Then, the liquid goes to water purifiers, according to which chemical the each factory wants to eliminate. The purifiers reduce their parts per million (ppm), as they can not eliminate the chemical completely. 
      • River Plate: Finally, the polluting liquids turn into natural water and are thrown back into the River Plate.

  • Objectives

    Reducing the amount of solid and chemical waste present in the River Plate. If possible, eliminating them completely, at long term. Moreover, there is another very important objective, which is making factories and industries to do something and putting this project into practice, as it would be impossible to accomplish it without them.

    The main pollution sources are:

    •      Ammonium, nitrite, other metals.
    •      Sewage.

    They come from:

    •      Alcoholic drinks’ factories (3%)
    •      Pharmaceutical, chemical, and petrochemical industries (30%)
    •      Desechos cloacales y otras industrias (67%)

    Contaminating affluents:

    •      Riachuelo, Arroyo Sarandí, Santo Domingo, Jimenez, Conchitas, Baldovinos, Pereyra.

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The introduction of the canadian beaver

The introduction of non-indigenous species is a problematic situation that is present in many places in the world, and is one that threatens with destroying whole natural ecosystems and with the extinction of the native species that live within them. This is cause by the hotel environment generated by these invasive species, when they find themselves inside these new ecosystems with a preferable space for their survival, without any kind of natural predator and with abundant food and resources. This generates conflict with the original species of these places, since they now have to compete for food and for a place to live in.

In our project, we focused in the situation that took place originally in 1946 in Tierra del Fuego with the introduction of the Canadian beaver, and that continues to affect that ecosystem until today. Because of the introduction of the beaver, a great part of the woods of Ushuaia have been devastated by them as a result of them using the trees as food and as materials to build their dams, which at the same time, generated the obstruction of natural rivers and their flooding. Destruction, contamination, floods; these are some of the things that the beaver has generated in the province since its introduction, having found itself at that time with ideal surrounding in which it managed to spread and reproduced very quickly without any obstacles to stand in their way.

Nowadays, the number of beavers has increased drastically, being now officially considered as one of the invasive species of the austral system. Many specialists try continually to propose new ideas that could solve this situation, testing new projects that hold this as their goal, but that haven’t been able to do so up to now.

Within our work, we also proposed to ourselves to formulate a possible solution to this problem, having already investigated extensively about it and having been inspired by others, which could at leasthelp in some aspect of the situation. For this, we formed the idea of a prototype which could, from the sound of the beavers, identify their frequency and send a signal to a database which would register the time and place of its recording so that it can map the position and concentration of beavers in the woods of Tierra del Fuego. The prototype would have the capacity of navigating through the woods with wheels, materials, and systems that would allow it to avoid destruction and every sort of obstacle. This process of mapping would be accompanied by the construction of habitats for the beavers in the zones that figure the highest concentration of them, and in which the vast majority of them would be castrated so as not to allow them to reproduce again without control. This, along other necessary steps that need to be taken in order to assure its fulfillment, we hoped would work as a possible help that could help alleviate the problematic faced by the ecosystem of Tierra del Fuego.

This is the theoretical base which helped us formulate our prototype, and in which our whole project of investigation was dictated:

And this is the presentation that we created to show the problematic, our inspirations, and the prototype.

Work done by: Valentina  Muguelar, Valentin Hernan, and Ignacio Cagide

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A habitable Riachuelo

Water pollution in the Riachuelo caused by industrial waste
While investigating the subject of water pollution by industrial waste we identified that nowadays, the main problem in Argentina is the pollution of the Riachuelo. This tributary is located in the city of Buenos Aires and it ends in the Rio de la Plata. This problem is very important specially because of the direct consequences it has on the 5 million people that live in its surroundings. Heavy metals, such as lead, chrome, mercury and cadmium, progressively accumulate in the body and cause intoxication. The continuous presence of solid waste causes the loss of biodiversity and the contamination of underground water sources.

Estado del arte

Solution Proposal
The main objective of our project is to remove the solid waste and heavy metals from the river to improve the quality of life for the people who live in its surroundings and to stop the loss of biodiversity. To accomplish this, we designed a plan that consists of two stages. The first stage would be to install a system called hidohigienizador that is carried by two hydrofoils to collect the solid waste that is on the surface of the river. The second stage would be the installation of aquatic plants capable of absorbing the heavy metals present in the river.
The hidrohigienizador consists of a float that sits on the surface of the river and a conical skirt three meters deep. The float gives floatability to the system and it avoids the solid waste from flowing above it, while the conical skirt avoids the waste from flowing under it. Additionally, the skirt allows the fish to swim under the system.

Hidrohigienizador

Hidrohigienizador

The hidrohigienizador is carried by two hydrofoils that are at the extremes. We chose to use hydrofoils for various reasons. To begin with, it´s flat background design is ideal to avoid the embarkation from being stuck or damaged by the solid waste. Moreover, the driver would be located on an elevated seat, in a covered cabin to take care of their health and have better visibility of objects that could damage the system. Lastly, the installation of solar panels to propel the aviation propeller would avoid the use of petrol and cause less damage to the environment as it is a renewable energy.

Lechuga de agua

For the second stage of our project we would be using phytoremediation, a technology based on the capacity of some plants to tolerate, absorb, accumulate and degrade organic or inorganic contaminating compounds. The type of phytoremediation we are interested in is phytoextraction. It is based on the fact that, through physiologic processes, plants can act as suction bombs and extract the metals from the water through their roots and accumulate them on their tissues. Once they have accumulated the metals, the plants are harvested and transported to a controlled disposal or incinerated. The plants we chose for our project are jacinto de agua and lechuga de agua.

Conclusion

Our project will remove the solid industrial waste and toxic waste from the Riachuelo, improving the quality of life for the people who live in its surroundings. In addition, it will improve the environment, stopping the loss of biodiversity.

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Wireless Streets

One of the most important resources in our lives is the water due to the fact that it is a non-renewable source so we must protect it. Nevertheless, nowadays the economic interests are more important than environmental interests. This is one of the reasons why this resource is so affected by the overuse and the pollution. The pulling out of oil and gas is one of the causes why water is used in an excessive and wrong way. One of the techniques of extraction that requires a lot of water is called fracking.

Our environmental problematic

The fracking technique is used for the extraction of petroleum and gas. The big problem is that it generates a very big environmental impact that is very risky since it can generate earthquakes, greenhouse effect and especially it pollutes not only the water used for the extraction but also the near aquifers. The pollution is produced by the use of chemicals on the water, that after it is used to extract petroleum and gas it cannot be used for consumption. The water that cannot be used again is stored in pools in the open that are not isolated, therefore they pollute the near rivers.

The document below is our investigation on the topic, quoting the specialists Germán Hazana and Víctor Bravo.

How can we solve it?

We imagined a solution to mitigate the environmental impact that fracking causes and we created a prototype. Our project is called “La huella ecológica del Fracking: ¿Cuánto sufre el agua con esta técnica?” We thought about how to reduce the use of petrol and in this way reducing the practice of fracking, given the fact that this technique needs the compulsory use of water and the contamination with chemicals is inevitable. Therefore we have to go even further and reduce the use of petrol and replace it for renewable energies.

Our solution idea – Wireless Streets

Our first idea was to create streets with solar panels on them. In this way, the energy created by the solar panel would charge the electric cars through electromagnetic induction. However, this would be very expensive.

So, instead of streets full of solar panels, we decided to create special sections for electric cars. People would be able to park them in those special places and charge them with the energy from the solar panels that are in that sector. The whole system would be the same, each car will have a sim card that stores the information of how much energy used the car to charge.

This chip is connected to the driver’s cell phone through Bluetooth. If the cell phone is not connected to the chip’s Bluetooth, the system will stock up in a memory how much energy the car has utilized and afterward when the cell phone is connected, the corresponding data will be passed. Through the App SOLAR FUEL, the chip’s information will be upload to the App, and from it to the cloud. At the end of the month, the money is collected by the credit card that was added to the App. The solar panels will be placed in high zones for the sunlight to reach more time during the day. This zones can be placed in gas stations, shopping malls or in parking lots, so for the time that you have to wait the car charges. The solar panels feed the wireless chargers and the wireless charger charges the car.

 

 

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Precipitation Islands

What are Precipitation Islands?

The Precipitation Islands is the name that takes a new proposal to fight against the floods and at the same time the deforestation. This project is as friendly to the environment as it is to the economy since the resources needed to carry it out come from nature and others are artificial but it is proven that they do not cause a negative impact on it. The idea is to get rid of excess water in rural areas of the interior.
The idea is to form extensive hills up to 2 meters high formed by a mixture of soil and sodium polyacrylate (Hydrogel) and above planting multiple rows of eucalyptus. These hills will be located in the low-lying areas generally flooded and were given the name of “Precipitation Islands” because this is the way they look like when these areas are covered with water.

What is an hydrogel?

This is how they are called superabsorbent polymers, these are generally organic macromolecules (carbon-carbon and carbon-hydrogen bonds) that are formed by the union of smaller molecules called monomers. Hydrogels can absorb large amounts of water through hydrogen bonding bonds, so much that 13 grams absorb 1 liter of water. This characteristic of these compounds is already used in the world of agriculture, is the sodium polyacrylate sold in powder form to add to the earth which favors and optimizes incredibly the growth of the plants as they give it to these, easier access to water and other nutrients. While sodium polyacrylate can absorb a large amount of water, one should not worry about drowned plants, they will only take what they need and the rest will be retained until necessary. It is also important to mention that the hydrogels and the trees form a circle, the hydrogels absorb the water in excess and at the same time the plants transpire it into the atmosphere.

Why Eucalyptus? 

Eucalyptus is also known as the “selfish tree” because it can absorb large amounts of water compared to other trees, due to its high rate of evapotranspiration. It is estimated that a eucalyptus consumes 20 liters of water per day, that is, if we think of islands with an average of 1,000 trees, we would be talking about 20,000 liters a day. This characteristic is what allows the tree to grow in such a short period of time, in about 10 years a tree can grow to no less than 10 meters depending on soil conditions. It can reach 70 m in height and 2 m in diameter in our country, although it usually exceeds 50 m in height and 1.50 m in diameter and can live up to 100 years. While its great absorption may be very favorable for the project, care must be taken because it is this same characteristic that can be the cause of severe droughts as happened with Kenya, whose government is currently fighting against the eucalyptus trees because they are compromising the limited water sources of the country.
In relation to the project, it can already be said that the trees will have an easy access to water and nutrients so that what can already be assured is a very rapid development of the trees. The eucalyptus is also a tree with a large rooting, unless hurricane winds are produced it is very unlikely that the wind will knock it down and even less when we talk about many trees together forming a great protective barrier.
In terms of climate, eucalyptus prefers humid, frost-free climates and its temperature range ranges from -3 ° C to 40 ° C.
Despite the fact that these trees can withstand temporary mudslides, they always run the risk of drowning, in a situation like this, as previously stated, the hydrogels will be in charge of helping the plant in these cases, and also, the elevation that the islands will have they will always allow the trees to stay safe.

To know more about the situation of the issue, you can do it through the following document: