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Water Category Winner
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Team Members:
Christopher Roberts, USA 🇺🇸
Gauri ghule, India 🇮🇳
Lucia Guazzardi, Italy 🇮🇹
Maryna Tolochyna, Ukraine 🇺🇦
Tessa Dronkers, Netherlands/Italy 🇳🇱🇮🇹
Description:
Our initiative is to produce bioplastics from seaweed farmed off coastal India; keeping our waters safe and free of plastics while creating jobs, and supporting local female farmers. Our goal is to scale up to meet India’s move away from single-use plastics next summer, and beyond that, develop bioplastics dissolvable in saline water.
Motivation:
The winner in the Hack for Earth challenge category Water is Varuna Blue.
For an outstanding solution in regards to the criteria Comprehensibility, Realisability, Innovativeness, Scalability, Solving the Sustainable Development Goals and Team, the winner in the challenge category Water is Varuna Blue.
The Jury finds that Varuna Blue has created a solution that has the potential to create real change for our future world.
The solution will also empower women through the employment of female seaweed farmers, and will provide a swift response to one of the most urgent threats we face today, plastic water pollution..