Meeting Time:
Wednesday 7PM – 7:50 PM
Project Description
The EWB Ethiopia project is a stage 3 project working to reduce plastic waste in the Simien Mountains National Park in Debark, Ethiopia. Due to the amount of waste in the parks, they currently store plastic waste in large pits and then burn the waste when the quantity is too high, which is harmful to the local ecosystem. As such, the project is focused on three major points: plastic collection, shredding the plastic, and then molding the plastic. The plastic will be collected from the campsites, dried, and shredded, before being molded into a product that will be sold to the local community to maintain the project. The team has constructed the plastic shredder and has completed testing. The plastic collection cage and injection molder are being constructed for testing in Spring 2024. The team also traveled to Ethiopia in the Summer of 2024. In the fall 2024 and this current semester, we are rebuilding the shredder and injection molder machines so that both the AAiT Team and ASU Team can stress test the machines. We also need to rebuild the machine to prototype products.