site.btaBurgas High School Students Win WWF Panda Labs Competition with Project for Biodegradable Food Packaging

An idea for biodegradable packaging for food products won the Panda Labs competition, said the organizers from WWF Bulgaria on Monday. 

Five students from the Mathematics High School in Burgas proposed a biodegradable packaging made of chitosan (a water-soluble biopolymer with a chemical composition identical to that of cellulose), seeds and secondary waste from industrial hemp. To arrive at their environmentally sustainable proposal, the team worked on a case study related to the excessive use of plastic in the food industry.

The members of the winning team will receive start-up funding in the amount of BGN 7,000, which they will use to conduct initial tests and work on the creation of a prototype.