What’s your Why? I believe I was put on this earth to… To connect with others and try to make light of darker situations My purpose is to… Help future generations live the life we are able to now Find ways to make things positive and light-hearted, and alleviate stress from my life and […]
Living an Impact-Focused Life What’s your Why? I believe I was put on this earth to… Help the environment/others. Enable others to live an enjoyable life. My purpose is to… Help others/environment enable others to live good lives I believe (my core values)… Be respectful Give others the benefit of the doubt […]
Living an Impact-Focused Life What’s your Why? I believe I was put on this earth to… find happiness, enjoy the one life I was given, and connect with those around me My purpose is to… make the lives around me better and continue to leave it better than I found it I believe […]
AgriWrap aims to decrease pollution in the Philippines by providing an alternative to single-use films. We repurpose agricultural waste into bioplastic sheets that can be used to wrap handheld food items or line food containers. AgriWrap’s bioplastic not only has similar food-grade properties to wax paper or plastic films, but also is biodegradable, meaning it […]
OPINION PIECE: 2.7 million tons of plastic are discarded annually in the Philippines (Climate Change Commission 2024). Where are these plastics going to end up? There are only 3 options – and none of them are going to benefit you. Whether these plastics end up in landfills, are burned, or are openly dumped, they will […]
Oikos (Current) What constituted the partnership? Wanting to learn more about bioplastic product manufacturing How did the partner help you? How did you help them? Gave us an insight into their manufacturing process We could work on the pellets and help them from importing the raw materials Was this a symbiotic relationship? Why or why […]
Identify FIVE specific things in your slides that you could have done differently. Update the developments slide to specify corn/cassava raw materials + explain what we have learned about using one versus the other Include our who we met slide in the presentation (we had time, and this would more clearly show what we accomplished […]
One “aha-moment” I had during fieldwork was when we were talking with a food vendor. He was explaining to me how they package up their food into a plastic bag, which goes into a paper bag, which then goes into another plastic bag. And he didn’t mind using three bags because they were all so […]
During fieldwork, one of my biggest “aha moments” was during our visit to Oikos. Seeing the process a biodegradable bag goes through, from the start of production as bioplastic pellets to the end of production when they are shipped out to customers, was very eye-opening. This showed me what it will take for a product […]
I would say that one of my biggest aha moments was seeing all of the pollution that was in the streets. I had known that the Philippines had struggled with managing its trash collection system, but I was not expecting to see all of these heaps of trash on the sidewalks. I was also shocked […]