AWARD YEAR
2023
CATEGORY
Community
GOALS
Zero Hunger, Responsible Consumption & Production, Climate Action
KEYWORDS
Cradle to Cradle, decomposed in the soil, double-layer, tea branches
COUNTRY
Taiwan
DESIGNED BY
Chen Yu-Ting, Hsueh Kai-Chieh, Chang Hsun-Yu, Lin Zhong-Wei, Prof. Kai-Chu Li
WEBSITE
https://haileyy827.wixsite.com/ytcxdesign/1
Tea seedling pots
Tea-seedling Pots is based on the concept of perpetual circulation that can be decomposed by itself.
How does it work?
Tea-seedling Pots is based on the concept of perpetual circulation, which is suitable for the size of planting equipment, so that tea farmers can transplant mechanically and do lots of planting. The tea branches are used as container materials, and the double-layer structure is used, which contains fertilizers, so that it can completely protect the roots before transplanting, improve the survival rate, and reduce the behavior of tea seedling traders using plastic bags to raise seedlings.
Why is it needed?
01 The tea seedlings cultivated with plastic seedling bags are not suitable for mechanized transplantation
In the mechanized tea planting process of plastic bag seedlings, the tea seedlings remove the plastic seedling bag, resulting in the soil collapse of bag seedlings, which affects the seedling throwing operation of tea planting machine and the survival rate of tea seedlings.
02 Plastic seedling bags can’t be recycled, which is easy to cause the problem of field pollution of agricultural waste
In order to transportation of tea seedlings, merchants mostly use plastic seedling bags filled with soil for cutting propagation. When tea farmers plant tea seedlings, they need to cut off the outer bag, which not only consumes manpower and damages the root system, but also the used bag can’t be recycled, which is easy to cause the problem of field pollution of agricultural waste.
How does it improve life?
The tea branch cultivation cup is for sustainable recycling. The green design from cradle to cradle reduces the generation of agricultural waste and realizes the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources. In addition to effectively improving the planting efficiency of tea farmers, it also brings environmental protection awareness, so that tea seedling merchants can reduce the use of plastic bags for seedling raising, and greatly save the follow-up labor cleaning cost.
01 The survival rate of tea seedling transplantation can reach 90%
02 Because the cultivation cup can support root growth, water conservation and pressure resistance, it can be used not only in tea crops, but also in woody plants such as Camellia oleifera, bitter tea, or other forest trees in the future.
03 It can reduce 1.2 million plastic wastes, protect the root system of tea seedlings during planting and cooperate with mechanized planting.