21-year-old Gabe Tavas won the 2021 US James Dyson Award. His mission was successful and it was to create wood without having to cut down trees. This is what led to the creation of Pyrus: a petroleum-free and wood-like material which is sustainably produced using repurposed bacterial cellulose waste from […]
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This Mexican Student Invented Rubber Road Pavement with Self-Repair Properties
Israel Carmona is a student from Mexico who won the nation’s James Dyson Award for his invention of a tyre-based pavement that is repaired by rain rather than damaged by it. The student of Coahulia Autonomous University made a rubber pavement from recycled tyres and additives that enable self regeneration […]