Carbon Sink Boxes

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Our initiative seeks to use innovative ways to conduct extensive research in re-using solid wastes (mainly food wastes/byproducts) in developing carbon sink boxes for growing trees with minimal or without irrigation. The carbon sink boxes packages rock minerals including olivine blended with solid waste which is first modified into biochar through pyrolysis. Biochar is an efficient form of carbon sequestration, are hygroscopic and can retain both water and soluble nutrients to be released slowly over time. Our products are in form of biodegradable mineralized product that can hold wind and surface runoff and will be marketed to farmers planting trees in degraded lands. Use of carbon sink boxes for growing trees is an effective countermeasure to increase soil organic carbon stock while improving soil fertility and climate change mitigation in agriculture. The carbon sink boxes is a game-changer that not only enrich the soils with minerals and arrest CO2 but improves plant structure, increase resistance to pests and disease, and more intense flavor profiles for fruits trees. Our initiative simply entails turning an environmental and social risk into an opportunity (turning an environmental hazard into a safe asset).

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