From trash to treasure
CHMSC is currently working with TUKLAS Innovation Labs to turn potentially harmful plastic bottle trash into low-cost lifesavers. The major beneficiaries of said lifesavers are partners from low income communities who also deserve quality disaster and risk reduction and management measures, such as what is currently being pilot-tested, a lifejacket made from plastic bottles, scrap nets, and other buoyant trash materials. These lifesavers should be very useful in times of flash floods or other water-related calamities.
Fisherfolks and community representatives from Talisay City, Negros Occidental are testing the Bottle-Net Life Jacket in rushing water and at sea!
By continuously testing the life-saving device in different environments, the innovation team from Carlos Hilado Memorial State College aims to simulate disaster scenarios, such as flash floods.
