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to get inspired
https://opensesame-erasmus.weebly.com/earth-day-22-april.html

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In the Gourds are generally round but Aizaki uses a 3D-printed 1st video we can see how 100% recyclable and compostable cups are made from gourds, a fruit used across many cultures to carry food and transport liquids. Creator Jun Aizaki says the cups are inspired by square watermelons and hopes to use them to fight the environmental damage caused by single-use plastics. mould to create different sized cups. They currently take roughly five months to grow, so Aizaki is working on ways to grow them in a more controlled environment. He hopes to mass produce them one day.

2nd video - A biotech company called Ecovative in upstate New York designs products made from the root structures of mushrooms ( mushroom mycellium). It takes about a week to grow their alternative to styrofoam packaging. And their vegan meat can be sliced into whole cuts and crisps up like bacon when fried.
This packages breaks down in just 30 days, conventional styrofoam never goes away.

3rd video
1. This bin collects garbage from the sea. Seabin has a pump that creates a flow of water. The garbage is caught in a bag, allowing water to flow out back to sea.
2. This machine crushes beer bottles into usable sand. 200 grams of powder form each bottle is recycled to preserve beaches.
3. SaltWater Brewery created edible packaging to save sea life. The six-pack rings are made of barley and wheat. Sea life can eat the rings safely.
4. AIR-INK can turn air pollution into ink. it collects carbon soot from a car's exhaust. Then it is processed into a high-quality black ink.
5. These edible water blobs are biodegradable. The capsule is made from a seaweed extract. A greener solution to creating waste-free packaging.
6. This "Ocean Cleanup" machine has a giant floating pipe to capture plastic. The pipe moves with the waves and has floating anchors. The plastic is a; gathered in the center for a boat to remove.
7. Avani's biodegradable bags are saving sea life and reducing ocean pollution. They are made from cassava root and natural starches. Making them harmless for animal consumption.
8. This machine recycles tires. They are turned into rubber crumb for artificial grass.
9. Aquaponics combines fish farming and hydroponics. As the fish eat and grow they produce waste. The wastewater is given to plants as a fertilizer. The plants absorb the nutrients in the water and they are returned to the fish tanks. A natural process to growing food.
10. HomeBiogas 2.0 turns food scraps into cooking gas. The gas flows from the system directly to the kitchen stove. It can be fed up to six liters of waste and digest almost anything. HomeBiogas can also create fertilizer that goes back into soil.

4th video - Cupffee is a wafer cup made out of grains that reamins solid for up to an hour and does not alter the taste of the drink inside it. The product is the invention of a Bulgarian startup, which is looking for investment to expand its production beyond the edible cup.

5th video - This Indonesian startup called Evoware found a solution to replace the single-use plastic packaging by edible cups and food wraps made of seaweed! Read the article : https://www.in-venture.org/evoware

6th video - Bottura's 4 ways to reduce food waste: https://youtu.be/SlYdKuKdbKA

1. Use vegetable scraps to create stock
(use leeks, asparagus, onion and mushrooms for a velvet soup and use the scraps to make a stock)

2. Turn bread into dessert
old/stale bread - You can make some sweet bruschetta
with caramelised banana and orange juice

3. Eat banana peels
boil - dry in the oven - toast on a pan
make a banana peel and pepper chutney

4. Use expired dairy to make a pasta dish (= use expired ricotta + parsley, cilantro, thyme + parmesan for some ravioli filling - accompany them with an onion&leek cream sauce + a bit of lime zest)

Similar ideas: using leftover fruit juice pulp to make fruit bread, or muffins or other baked foods; throwing Parmesan cheese rinds into Minestrone; using crustaceans shells for delicious bisques/fish stocks.
Kath, BeeBee's founder, gives us a taste of the countless ways we can use 7th video - BeeBee Wraps at home and out and about so we can keep our food fresh AND avoid using single-use plastic like cling film.

Rimping Supermarket has started wrapping fresh produce in 8th video - banana leaves instead of plastic.

Questions on videos 1-4 + web search on edible cups:
1. Can you make cups with gourds? How?
2. What would you need a mould for?
3. Are there many companies producing edible cups? Where are they based?
4. What are the main characteristics of edible cups?
5. Can you create a homemade version of an edible cup? How?
6. Where do we use styrofoam? What for?
7. What can you use to replace styrofoam?
8. Will it be important to replace styrofoam with a compostable product? Why?
9. Which invention/idea to save the planet do you think is the cleverest?
10. Which do yo think is the most useful?

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In the Gourds are generally round but Aizaki uses a 3D-printed 1st video we can see how 100% recyclable and compostable cups are made from gourds, a fruit used across many cultures to carry food and transport liquids.

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stuffed animals made from old clothes

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We have loved the idea of the hanger, I think it is very practical. :)

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we think the most original idea is the speaker made of plastic cups :)

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I think the most most original idea is the can with two plastic bags. With this, you can recycle at home! I'll do that at home.