Ecoco
Mitigate mosquito borne diseases by producing repellents from discarded coconut fiber, employing vulnerable women.
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SOCIAL INNOVATION
Document with all evidence according to the criteria of round 1.
- Social issue The source of Ecoco’s social idea was born with a mixture of personal experiences and a systematic search, since it is oriented to the vision a member of the team casually visited a coconut stand located in Laguna Real subdivision, in the city of Veracruz to consume coconut water, however, in that stand there was a dump with more than 100 coconuts accumulated and piled up that lasted for more than 3 weeks, being evident the bad condition of coconut shells and even a bad smell.According to the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (2022) Mexico is a major coconut producer in the world, being the 7th coconut producer in the world. In terms of production, Mexico did 474, 139 tons in 2022 and exported 25,9 thousand tons in 2020. All over the world every year, 50 billion coconuts are produced, 85% of these shells are handled as waste and disposed of in landfills or dumps causing negative impacts on the environment. (Medium, 2020).Solution idea
The solution we propose is to manufacture insulating fabric and coconut fiber masetas to be able to take advantage and give other use to those wastes that are generated daily in the City of Veracruz, in this way we will contribute to responsible consumption and care of the environment.
In order to achieve our goal it is necessary to create alliances with at least one local coconut seller so that we can provide the coconut fiber and we can transform it into our two products mentioned above, we also consider the opening of a workshop to elavoriate coconut fiber pots, which aims to help women who want to acquire a new skill so that they can generate income with the elaboration of coconut fiber pots so, We will need the support of the Municipal Women’s Institute of Veracruz.
- SOCIAL INNOVATION ECOCO 2024
Round 1
Stakeholders
- On Thursday, April 9, 2024. We made an agreement with “The Coconut King” to be our main suppliers of coconut fiber.
- On Thursday, May 9th, we spoke with the director of the Municipal Institute of Women of Veracruz, which gave us its support to consider opening the workshop of making pots of coconut fiber. We were waiting for the dates to be able to teach the workshop.
Our production process
- Recolection the coconut fiber.
- Separate the coconut fiber.
- Prepare glue to mix coconut fiber.
- Stretch the mixture for insulating fabric and mold to the shape of the pots
5. Leave the insulating fabric and pot to cecar for the next result.
