Introduction

Sustainability is an essential part for us to play its expected role. It is important for us to constantly keep track of our contribution to communities' sustainability. The reason for this pursuit is to provide long-term resolution and assistance to whoever struggling with the issue. Our goal is to eliminate the sulfonamide leftovers on the land due to the excessive use of antibiotics. This is especially important in countries with intense agriculture. Also, maintaining sustainability cannot be either an arbitrary decisions or subjective imagination that both lack consideration. In other words, the benefits and opinions of multiple involvers must be taken into consideration.

SDGs

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the UN, are urgent calls for all countries to maintain peace and prosperity and eliminate poverty and inequality. They are advocated to be achieved by the global partnership of all nations. (From UN.org)

#1 Good Health and Well-being

Public health is taken into serious consideration nowadays. The fragile balance can be disturbed easily if nothing changes. Excessive antibiotic use, as our focus, could induce a dramatic explosion of superbugs. They incapacitate antibiotics used to a great extent in an irreversible mode. To work in concert with the issue, we try to eliminate the sulfonamides, the typical antibiotics, leftover in the soil without overly interfering with the stock farmers' benefit. We interviewed the farmers and adjusted our implementation plan according to their ideas. Adding Lac-6 at an earlier stage of the circulation will incapacitate the proper functioning of the antibiotics, thus unfeasible for the interviewees. For this reason, we decided to add Lac-6 at the end of the circulation, in the feces of the livestock, to eliminate the effect of antibiotic leftovers on the environment. This distinct implementation not only ensured the wills of the farmers but also gained more sustainability for our work in multiple ways.

#2 Affordable and Clean Energy

Access to affordable energy has become extremely crucial to every citizen in the fast-tempo society. Meanwhile, the affordability of energy sources is equally valued by the majority of energy consumers. However, most cheap energies are fossil fuels that are nonrenewable and pernicious to the environment by their by-products of usage. For example, the combustion of gasoline produces a considerable amount of Carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, and other kinds of toxic greenhouse gases. To maintain sustainability, our group worked on a kind of affordable renewable energy resource – marsh gas. We devised a septic tank that is specialized in producing marsh gas while processing the animal feces with antibiotics leftovers. Marsh gas, which is mainly methane, is relatively cheap compared to the other renewable sources and costs free to us. In such a way, sustainability is maintained

#3 Clean water and sanitization

Clean water sources and sanitization have always been a problem in some areas of the world. China, as one of those areas, is in a relative shortage of clean water sources. Clean water and sanitization, as an essential part of the world's collective sustainability, are considered in our plan. By removing the antibiotics leftovers in the animal feces, we eliminated the chance of those substances entering the water bodies or ocean at the same time. Through this implementation, water quality is ensured. In addition, the water produced in the process of removing antibiotics leftovers can also be re-processed and made for further use again.

#4 Life below water

Water bodies like rivers and oceans are habitats for aquatic organisms. Pollution of water bodies will inevitably affect every individual in the water equally since substances including pernicious and toxic ones can diffuse rapidly in any water body. Maintaining water quality is key to the biodiversity and sustainability of lives underwater. By eliminating possible pernicious substances like antibiotics leftovers, we will be able to protect the lives below water.

Reference

United Nations https://sdgs.un.org/goals Accessed 11 Oct. 2022.