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Proyecto ROHI has built a school located at the base of the Tegucigalpa municipal landfill, It has been serving families who have been trapped in survival mode, earning their living collecting and sorting recyclable materials. For generations, families have foraged through the mountain of garbage dump looking for something to
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Pela is a brand that has created one of the first 100% compostable phone cases. Their cases are plant-based and made from a combination of flax shive and biopolymers. They also offer other products, including Apple Watch bands and AirPods cases, for a variety of devices. What I find
Business
The Compost Exchange is a Columbus-based company that has created a simple system for turning food waste into something useful. Through a subscription, customers receive a yellow 5-gallon bucket to collect their food scraps. Each week, the bucket is picked up and the scraps are sent to local
2026-27 Capstone
Baralan is a company that designs, engineers, and manufactures packaging for beauty and cosmetic brands. They work primarily with skincare, makeup, and fragrance packaging, with a focus on performance, design, and long-term sustainability. Baralan has designed packaging that reduces the amount of material used, incorporates high-quality glass, and
2026-27 Capstone
This concept explores a similar strategy used by Rohi, which takes trash found in the Honduran landfill and turns it into new objects. In a similar way, this idea takes the valueless plastic shavings created from CNC machining Marble Plastics’ sheets and gives them a new purpose. Instead of remelting
2026-27 Capstone
Scientists and engineers at the University of Texas have discovered an enzyme that can “eat” plastic, breaking it down much faster than it would naturally degrade. This enzyme could potentially help address an important environmental problem: what to do with the billions of tons of plastic waste piling up in
2026-27 Capstone
Mycelium is the root network of fungi, and it could become a sustainable alternative to plastic. Producing mycelium involves a six-step process that takes around 5–14 days. The process cultivates fungal root networks on agricultural waste substrates and guides their growth into a more durable and malleable composite
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Concrete is one of the most widely used materials in the world because of its strength and ability to create durable foundations and structures. However, one of its main ingredients, cement, has a major environmental impact. Producing cement requires heating and processing limestone, which releases large amounts of carbon dioxide
2026-27 Capstone
Denovia is a research company in the sustainable waste management industry that is working toward a new era of plastic recycling. The company is developing a chemical recycling technology that converts post-consumer textile waste into high-purity acid monomers, creating a potential solution for a more profitable circular economy.
Arts & Lifestyle
Chris Jordan is an artist who uses photography to explore themes such as garbage, overconsumption, and our relationship with waste. His artwork Whale, 2011, depicts what initially appears to be a blurry image of a whale. However, as you look closer, you begin to realize that the seemingly unintelligible specks
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Flowers have been a part of Marcin Rusak’s family for generations, with his family working as florists and selling flowers as a business. But during a visit to London, Rusak encountered a side of the flower industry he had never seen so closely. At the city’s famous flower
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Save Ralph is a short animated film about Ralph, a rabbit who is used for cosmetic testing in a laboratory. Throughout the film, Ralph explains that his entire family died as a result of animal testing. Despite the suffering he experiences, he believes that the work is important because he