The great­est threat to our planet is the be­lief that some­one else will save it -Robert Swan, Author

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Being a part of this en­vi­ron­ment, it’s our re­spon­si­bil­ity to pre­vent it from down­grad­ing. Human ill prac­tices are the rea­son be­hind los­ing a va­ri­ety of es­sen­tial com­po­nents of this beau­ti­ful na­ture like air, soil qual­ity along with the qual­ity of liv­ing.

Hence our team is com­ing up with var­i­ous stan­dards that can stand well in ac­cor­dance with SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS pro­vided by UNESCO

1. Good health and well-be­ing: #

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Air and non-degrad­able plas­tic pol­lu­tion se­verely af­fect our health and well-be­ing. Here we have at­tempted to al­le­vi­ate the prob­lems as­so­ci­ated with these en­vi­ron­men­tal is­sues like the rise in res­pi­ra­tory dis­eases, loss in bio­di­ver­sity, and food qual­ity due to de­te­ri­o­rat­ing soil health from stub­ble burn­ing by de­com­pos­ing and pro­duc­ing bio­plas­tic from stub­bles. We have also cre­ated aware­ness about health pri­or­ity via our hand­book and to cover the right to good health and well-be­ing.

2. Decent work and eco­nomic growth: #

“Your work adds value when you can help many more needy hands to sus­tain in the so­ci­ety.”

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Our work car­ries an im­mense po­ten­tial to de­vote to the eco­nomic growth of the so­ci­ety. The com­mer­cial­iza­tion of our prod­uct both for the de­grad­ing so­lu­tion of stub­ble along with the bio­plas­tic can en­gage the work­ing force from var­i­ous back­grounds and can cre­ate a huge job op­por­tu­nity in the com­ing fu­ture.

To keep our work clean and jus­ti­fy­ing we have con­sulted ex­perts from di­verse back­grounds in­clud­ing aca­d­e­mic and in­dus­trial back­grounds, peo­ple from iGEM EPIC, pol­i­cy­mak­ers, and many more.

3. Sustainable cities and com­mu­ni­ties: #

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In north­ern India, the air pol­lu­tion prob­lem is one of the most promi­nent is­sues. Especially, New Delhi, the cap­i­tal city of our coun­try, was among the top 5 pol­luted cities in the world. Various res­pi­ra­tory prob­lems, road ac­ci­dents due to blurred vi­sion, and cor­ro­sion of mon­u­ments due to acid rain are out­comes of the stub­ble burn­ing and smoke pro­duced by states like Punjab and Haryana.

So, the thought process of de­com­pos­ing the stub­ble us­ing our for­mu­la­tion in the field in­stead of burn­ing would surely be a sav­ior to the suf­fer­ers and can help a larger com­mu­nity of India, a coun­try with 1.38 bil­lion peo­ple.

4. Climate Action #

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One of the main causes of global warm­ing and un­pre­dictable weather is burn­ing. Among that stub­ble burn­ing con­tributes a huge pro­por­tion. Heatstroke, burn­ing of skin and eye ir­ri­ta­tion, and de­hy­dra­tion have taken enough lives in this due course of time. Plastic pol­lu­tion in the ocean and soil has also af­fected the wa­ter cy­cle and soil wa­ter al­ter­ing all-nat­ural phe­nom­ena.

Bioplastic would al­le­vi­ate this prob­lem and tackle this by re­duc­ing harm­ful gas emis­sions like $CO$,$NO_2$,$SO_2$, etc.

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5. Life on Land: #

Mother earth has em­braced all or­gan­isms equally into her lap. The in­hab­i­tants on the soil in­ter­act among them­selves in both pos­i­tive and neg­a­tive man­ners main­tain­ing a bal­ance of life. But hu­man prac­tices have in­ter­rupted this cy­cle de­stroy­ing the whole bal­ance. For e.g., burn­ing kills earth­worms and frogs, and many other soil mi­crobes which help in mak­ing the soil fer­tile. Moreover, the non-degrad­able plas­tic re­lease harm­ful chem­i­cals into ground wa­ter by seep­age, harm­ing both the wa­ter and or­gan­isms’ deep un­der­soil. Nevertheless, life with flight is also af­fected due to heavy smoke pro­duc­tion.

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Implementation of the prod­uct would sup­port life on the soil.

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6. Partnerships for the goals: #

We be­lieve our work car­ries the power to cre­ate an im­pact.

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Our jour­ney re­quired ex­per­tise from var­i­ous back­grounds.

We con­sulted var­i­ous stake­hold­ers which in­cluded politi­cians, in­dus­tri­al­ists, sci­en­tists, non-farm­ing com­mu­ni­ties, stu­dents, and farm­ers to con­sol­i­date our pro­ject with in­puts from a di­verse group of peo­ple.

We in­tend to fur­ther carry for­ward this work af­ter iGEM to make a real im­pact uti­liz­ing all the part­ner­ships de­vel­oped dur­ing this iGEM pro­ject.