The University of Calabar (UNICAL) International Demonstration Secondary School, Calabar, has won two tickets to represent Nigeria in the 2015 Students for Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) World Cup by August 2015 in South Korea.
The school team led by one of the teachers, Christy Oko, represented Cross River State in a competition on Social Enterprise Business category earlier organized recently by the SAGE local body in Abuja for Secondary Schools in Nigeria and the State won the tickets of representing the country.
Sequel to their involvement in research and improvement, the UNICAL Demonstration SAGE Team were persuaded to conceive, design and fabricate the first ever recycling machine for the processing of waste materials such as glasses, papers and polythene into building tiles.
To clinch the tickets, of representing the country, the school team recycled broken bottles into household floor tiles, thus putting broken glass bottles into good use rather than causing environmental and health hazard.
The production process of the eco-friendly CH-tiles involved the collection of broken bottles, crushed into pieces and ground in the CH-Tiles maker, mixed with paper mash as paste and the bled mixture put in moulds that are greased with waste palm oil glazed according to designs and colour needed and left to dry, the end product being a beautiful floor and wall tiles.
The second ticket, won by the Craft SAGE team of the UNICAL International Secondary School, was the production of biodiesel, utilizing waste cooking oil in their environment and rebranded CAL-BIOFUEL with the advantages of being safe to produce, low toxicity and high bio-degradability.
Before the production of CAL-BIOFUEL, the SAGE craft team with the knowledge that, harmful gases released as a result of human activities like fossil fuel burning, is one of the major causes that gives an upward push for the amount of green house gasses in the atmosphere, causing global warming and contributing to health and environmental problems, saw an immediate need for an alternative eco-friendly fuel.
A cooking oil collection programme tagged: “Drops of life” was created to highlight the importance of used cooking oil recycling, instead of disposing them indiscriminately.
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