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The world is full of plastics. Through the years, humans had been contaminating the Earth with several polymers, being the most dangerous the short-term ones. Nowadays, we know that there are several solutions for reducing plastics, however, are there any solutions for removing plastics once and for all? Is there any eco-friendly solution?

We have two proposals that aim to remove or at least reduce plastic in a massive way. We know that there are three living organisms that can “eat” or degrade plastic: a worm, a bacteria and a fungus. We thought of a way in which we could use these living creatures in a domestic and comfortable way, so that people could reduce plastics and help the environment from the comfort of their homes.

On the one hand, we create the C.R.D.P. ( Compactor and Reductor of Plastic), this machine is composed by two parts: a manual and portable compactor, and a “fishbowl” with the plastic-eaters organisms previously mentioned. The role of the compactor is to reduce the size of the plastic wastes that later on will be deposited inside the container. The fishbowl would act as a composter, people would leave them in a place near their homes and plastics would be the only material allowed to throw in it. This wouldn’t just help to reduce plastic if not it would also help with the classification of wastes, decreasing their amount in a vast scale. A further step beyond the domestic use of the C.R.D.P. to implement its use not just at home if not all over the town.

On the other hand, we believe that a most effective solution would be to extract the enzyme from the fungus that can biodegrade plastic. The enzyme would mix with non-toxic chemicals. The ami of this is to create a cheap product that can be sold at supermarkets (similar to cleaning products). Even Though this idea would be much more easier to use, and has more benefits, the process for the extraction of the enzyme is really hard and expensive. The objective would be to find an easier way to extract the enzyme so as the product could be sold cheaper and everyone in the country could have one.

To conclude, our aim is to show our project in an investor’s website such as Kickstarter or GoFundMe, in this way the ideas could get viral and be financed by those who are interested. For more information about this project please watch the video below.

It is a known fact that the environment is being permanently affected by our presence and all the activities that we do, but while researching on this topic, there was a news that particularly impressed us: the death of marine fauna. After an extensive study, we discover that the principal cause of this is the marine waste, or in other words, any type of garbage that we generate and it ends up infecting to the ocean.

Our study also revealed that nowadays physical solutions already exist, therefore we decided to attack with campaigns to raise awareness. We strongly believe that it is essential to clean the oceans and provide a healthier environment for all the animals, but it is useless to clean them if they are going to end up being dirty again. Hereby, we decide to focus on the kids of our community and to show them the importance of the oceans, to prevent these form filling with plastic and unwanted chemicals again. We aimed at the younger generation due to the fact that they are our future and the world that we are shaping and cleaning today, is for them.
For our campaign we design a panel to shock every student of the secondary school who run up to it. In it, we created a wave out of our daily waste, which refers to the name of our campaign “Wave of garbage”, and place posters with important facts highlighting the quantity of garbage that is present in the ocean nowadays. As for the kids of primary school, we prepared a short talk in which we show them a glass with water and candy wrappers, forcing them to put themselves in the shoes of all the animals that live among waste every day. For this, we asked them if they would like to drink this water, which kept them amazed.
To finish, we wanted our campaign, in spite of having focused it in our own community, to expand and reach as many heads as possible. Therefore, we created a website, where we have placed all the information that we had gathered and invite any visitor to collaborate not only spreading our discoveries, but also helping other campaigns that nowadays are cleaning oceans and beaches.
In conclusion, we would like to emphasize the importance that the water masses have in our lives, since not only they represent a source of food or recreation, but they are part of the environment just like us. A phrase that marked our campaign was “If the oceans die, we die” (Captain Paul Watson) and in spite of its simplicity, we think that there is no better phrase that summarizes our cause. Let’s not leave them to die, because we will be killing ourselves. Let’s take care of them just as how we would like to be treated.