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Close shot pull focus of carnations2. Tilt down of woman working cutting carnations3. Close of woman cutting carnations4. Mid shot of woman cutting carnations and placing waste inside container5....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFaca - December 10, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e1. Close shot pull focus of carnations\u003cbr/\u003e2. Tilt down of woman working cutting carnations\u003cbr/\u003e3. Close of woman cutting carnations\u003cbr/\u003e4. Mid shot of woman cutting carnations and placing waste inside container\u003cbr/\u003e5. Various of men cutting stems and placing them inside container\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close of hand cutting steams \u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid shot of stems on the ground\u003cbr/\u003e8. Mid shot of woman cutting stems and placing them inside container\u003cbr/\u003e9. Mid shot of stems and some carnations inside container \u003cbr/\u003e10. Mid shot of woman carrying container with floral waste \u003cbr/\u003e11. Mid shot of woman placing floral waste into a container\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid shot of Omar Bolivar touching floral waste while talking to a woman\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of floral waste drying up\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Omar Bolivar, Student:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Basically, the project is to avoid what we are looking at here, which is the composting (referring to the floral waste behind him). As you can see it is a wide terrain that is being utilised just to dispose of floral waste. It has leaching problems (referring to the separation of soluble from insoluble substances), and we simply want to avoid all this by taking advantage of the waste, and converting it into new raw material and applying it to some products that at the end will benefit us environmentally, socially and economically\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Various of man placing floral waste into a machine\u003cbr/\u003e16. Close of machine expulsing floral waste in little pieces\u003cbr/\u003e17. Mid shot of man placing floral waste inside container\u003cbr/\u003e18. Mid shot of man covering container with floral waste to start boiling it\u003cbr/\u003e19. Mid shot of floral waste becoming cellulose pulp\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various of cellulose pulp being placed into another container\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Omar Bolivar, Student:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Our product lasts from one to two months and styrofoam lasts from 300 to 500 years, it hasn''t been proved yet, but it is what experts say. So it would, we would, stop producing waste, and produce reusable compost.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eBogota - December 9, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e22. Tilt Down of Omar manipulating cellulose pulp to start making biodegradable styrofoam \u003cbr/\u003e23. Close of Omar''s face\u003cbr/\u003e24. Mid shot of Omar making balls with cellulose pulp\u003cbr/\u003e25. Close of hands making balls with cellulose pulp\u003cbr/\u003e26. Mid shot of balls of cellulose pulp before becoming biodegradable styrofoam\u003cbr/\u003e27. Mid shot of Omar carrying balls of cellulose pulp to place them to the moulds \u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid shot of Omar cleaning the moulds before placing cellulose pulp on them\u003cbr/\u003e29. Mid shot of Omar placing cellulose pulp on the moulds\u003cbr/\u003e30. Mid shot of Omar flattening the cellulose pulp with the machine\u003cbr/\u003e31. Close of hands pushing bottoms while flattening the cellulose pulp \u003cbr/\u003e32. Close of professor Luis Eduardo Garzon and the lid of the machine lifting\u003cbr/\u003e33. Mid shot of Luis Eduardo Garzon and Omar Bolivar watching the packaging \u003cbr/\u003e34. Various of packaging made of cellulose pulp\u003cbr/\u003e35. Mid shot of Omar touching the packaging while professor talks to him\u003cbr/\u003e36. Close of packaging made of cellulose pulp\u003cbr/\u003e37. Mid shot of hands breaking and touching the packaging made of cellulose pulp\u003cbr/\u003e38. Mid shot of professor Luis Eduardo talking to Omar while touching the packaging\u003cbr/\u003e39. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Luis Eduardo Garzon, Professor, Industrial Design, Universidad Nacional de Colombia: \u003cbr/\u003e\"From all the Colombian fibres we found a problem encountered by the florists who also produce vegetable fibres. Currently those vegetable fibres are obviously not being used, they are waste. What we are proving now with this project is that those vegetable fibres are not garbage but a raw material to produce paper or geometrically designed packaging material.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eFaca - December 10, 2009\u003cbr/\u003e40. Mid shot of carts carrying carnations \u003cbr/\u003e41. Mid shot of bouquets of carnations ready to be packed\u003cbr/\u003e42. Mid shot of women working with the carnations\u003cbr/\u003e43. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maria Fernanda Rojas, Managing Director, Colibri Flowers:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, 75% of the waste that a flower company generates are vegetables. It is very possible that the company could take them back into its producing process by turning them into compost and putting them back into the ground, but there are other waste products which are very complicated. Because of the pesticides used in carnations, we possibly could use the waste to plant them again, but how good it would be if we could use them to promote the company even more by, producing paper, packaging and other kind of alternatives that can be become part of the business in our producing process.\" \u003cbr/\u003e44. Various of carnations packed to be sold\u003cbr/\u003eFlowers are one of Colombia''s biggest exports, with the industry the second biggest exporter of flowers in the world after the Netherlands. \u003cbr/\u003eIt creates a lot of organic waste, some 1,700 tones of floral waste every year. \u003cbr/\u003eBut now some of that waste is being recycled into biodegradable styrofoam which can be used for packing. \u003cbr/\u003eAbout 65 percent of the flowers sold in the United States are imported, primarily from Colombia and Ecuador. \u003cbr/\u003eColombia alone exports about $630 millions worth of flowers annually according to the Ministry of Agriculture. \u003cbr/\u003eThey say the cut-flower industry has almost surpassed coffee as Colombia''s most valuable legitimate agricultural export.\u003cbr/\u003eThe industry produces some 1,700 tones of floral waste every year. \u003cbr/\u003eResearchers at the National University in Bogota have spent ten years trying to find a new use for flower waste. \u003cbr/\u003eThe $50,000 (USD) government backed project has led to the creation of a biodegradable styrofoam which can be used for packing.\u003cbr/\u003eStudent Omar Bolivar explains that rather than let the flower stems simply rot, they are creating new raw materials. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Basically, the project is to avoid what we are looking at here, which is the composting  As you can see it is a wide terrain that is being utilised just to dispose of floral waste. It has leaching problems (referring to the separation of soluble from insoluble substances), and we simply want to avoid all this by taking advantage of the waste, and converting it into new raw material and applying it to some products that at the end will benefit us environmentally, socially and economically\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003eLed by Professor of Industrial Design, Luis Eduardo Garzon, the team has produced biodegradable styrofoam by boiling up parts of the waste into cellulose pulp.\u003cbr/\u003eThe cellulose that forms part of a flower''s cellular wall is removed from the stems. \u003cbr/\u003eThe stems are then placed into a container with caustic soda and water and boiled at high temperatures to create the cellulose pulp. \u003cbr/\u003eThis can be used to make biodegradable styrofoam which can be used to create surgical shoes, boxes and packing.  \u003cbr/\u003eThe main advantage over traditional styrofoam is that it degrades when it is eventually dumped. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Our product lasts from one to two months and styrofoam from 300 to 500 years, it hasn''t been proved yet, but it is what experts say. So it would be something like stopping producing waste to produce reusable compost,\" says  Bolivar.\u003cbr/\u003eThe team leader Luis Eduardo Garzon is a professor of Industrial Design at Colombia''s National University. \u003cbr/\u003e\"From all the Colombian fibres we found a problem with the florists who also produce vegetable fibres (biodegradable waste). Currently that biodegradable waste is obviously not being used, they are waste. What we are proving now with this project is that those biodegradable waste are not garbage but a raw material to produce paper or geometrically designed packaging material.\" he says. \u003cbr/\u003eThe Colombian Association of Flower Growers (Asocolflores) has been supporting the project due the benefits it represents not only to the environment but also to the flower industry.\u003cbr/\u003eMaria Fernanda Rojas, Managing Director of Colibri Flowers is a keen supporter. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Well, 75% of the waste that a flower company generates is organic. it is very possible that the company could take them back into its producing process by turning them into compost and putting them back into the ground, but there are other waste products which are very complicated. Because of the pesticides used in carnations, we possibly could use the waste to plant them again, but how good it would be if we could use them to promote the company even more by, producing paper, packaging and other kind of alternatives that can be commercialised in our producing process.\" \u003cbr/\u003eThe pesticides used in carnations are not as strong as others used in different flowers and so it makes them suitable for compost. \u003cbr/\u003eBolivar says stems from any flower can be used to produce the styrofoam, but currently the project is been tested with stems of roses and carnations grown in the vicinity of Bogota.\u003cbr/\u003eGarzon and his team now hope to find interested buyers for their products in both the domestic and international markets.\u003cbr/\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='action-container flex justify-between'\u003e\n\u003cbutton aria-expanded='false' aria-label='Read more description' class='rp-full-description' 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