• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Techcouver.com

 
 
  • News
  • Events
  • Interviews
  • Thought Leadership
  • Web Summit Vancouver
  • Jobs
  • About
    • Contact Us

High School Students Are Turning Blackberries Into Paper This Waste Reduction Week

October 17, 2023 by Bulletin Board Leave a Comment

It’s Waste Reduction Week in Canada – an initiative that is intended to encourage recycling education, collection, and transitioning towards a circular economy.

Two local high school students, Margo and Nicholas, were recently selected as semi-finalists (12-15) at the Youth Innovation Showcase, a virtual STEM competition put on by the Science Fair Foundation BC, for their inventive approaches to waste reduction.

In a world fraught with escalating global warming and unforeseen temperature spikes, creative solutions and fostering young minds is paramount. Both Margo and Nicholas came up with circular waste systems to attack this issue.

With discarded paper making up 26% of municipal waste annually and the third-largest emissions in Canada, Nicholas came up with BB Paper which tackles another looming threat – Himalayan blackberries – and turns them into paper. BB paper would reduce invasive blackberry species and make something useful out of it while decreasing the need for paper mills.

Margo aimed to devise a solution for the alarming annual average of 40% of food wasted a year. Greybox Paper would break down paper and food waste into a pulp, creating ten sheets of paper to every one pound of waste. By implementing this approach, it would minimize deforestation and alleviate the growing issue of landfill waste.

The Showcase evaluates creativity, communication, engagement, and difficulty through three rounds of judging. The winner will receive $5,000 to further develop their project. The showcase finalists will be announced on November 6th and the award winners will be announced on November 29th.

Filed Under: Bulletin Board Tagged With: Science Fair Foundation of BC

 
 

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Primary Sidebar

 
 

Stay Connected

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Community Partners

About Us

Techcouver provides real-time reporting and analysis of emerging technology news in Vancouver and throughout British … READ MORE... about About Us

Copyright © 2025 Incubate Ventures | Techtalent.ca · Decoder.ca · Calgary.tech · Fintech.ca · CleanEnergy.ca | Privacy