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Repurposing cardboard boxes
2 WEEKS
Problem
“The problem isn’t that you or I don’t recycle them. The problem is that recycling centers, with so much excess cardboard, just toss the material into a dump.”

How might we repurpose this material that is currently being wasted?
Research
E-commerce has increased the use of cardboard in North America and is estimated to grow 14.3% every year. This means that more customers will have piles of boxes in their houses that will end up in the dumpster.
Why Amazon?
Big companies, Big changes.
"Amazon accounts for 49 percent of the e-commerce market in the US"
"Amazon reportedly shipped 5 billion items via its Prime membership worldwide in 2017, with the most recent figures suggesting that over 600 million US deliveries are in corrugated boxes, which amounts to about 1.6 million packages a day."
Ideation
What if we could get energy from cardboard?







Solution


A station that will turn your cardboard into fuel. Based on the discovery of a new microorganism, cardboard can be converted into biodiesel after the microorganism “eats” the cardboard pulp. Don’t worry, they are non-harmful for humans. Also, this approach to producing biodiesel is especially notable compared to how we currently make ethanol. Instead of using food to create energy, it uses waste.
Many people believe that the future is electricity but, having only one source of energy is repeating the same mistake we made with fossil fuels. That’s why this solution is targeting a very promising fuel alternative. And it is already being used!

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Insert cardboard
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Microorganisms eats cardboard
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Cardboard shreds
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receive fuel points!
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