A design project that promotes better consumption and waste management practices. A circular design proposal was generated to reuse the waste from lemons used in taquerias. The pulp extracted from this waste is used to generate a biodegradable biomaterial membrane, which can later be used as a substitute for brown paper and plastic.

There are 122,757 taquerias in Mexico according to INEGI's 2019 economic census of the restaurant industry in Mexico. In these taquerias, an average of 25 kg of lemons are used weekly, reaching a consumption of up to 60 kg of lemons. up to a consumption of 60 kg of lemons whose waste is discarded instead of being used. Squeezed lemons are a valuable input for generating biomaterials. In most of the taquerias, brown paper is used to serve tacos; on average, 3 kg of this paper is thrown away per week, which represents 156 kg of paper per year. Circular design is the creative engine of the circular economy, through it we can change the way we produce and consume products, with immediate changes or long-term solutions. immediate changes or long-term solutions, with these changes we can stop overexploiting nature to cooperate with it.

We seek to create a design project that promotes better consumption and waste management practices through lemons, a staple food in Mexican taco culture that ends up being a waste when it could be used to generate a raw material such as a bio membrane through a circular design proposal in which the waste from the same lemons used for the consumption of diners in taquerias will be reused.