FBP Pressed Plastic
Abstract
The Full Belly Project is a nonprofit organization based in Wilmington, North Carolina. Founded by Jock Brandis in November of 2003, The Full Belly Project designs and distributes income-generating agricultural devices to improve life in developing countries. These devices are simple and inexpensive in their design, and are intended to be build on location for the people using them. In August of 2004, Brandis traveled to Haiti to work with Peace Corps. volunteers. Later, in August of 2007, Brandis and Executive Director Jeff Rose returned to Haiti. While in Haiti, Rose noted that waste plastic was widespread. He recognized that this waste plastic could serve as a resource for Haitians. Thusly, this project to form waste plastic into a usable resource was launched. The FBP organization hired Cal Poly Humboldt's Environmental Resources Engineering design class to improve and expand on their original design of the Universal Nut Sheller. Our group consisted of four members: Joey Hiller, Solomon Homicz, Dan Simons, and Devin Fredericksen. Our task was to develop a molding process, suitable to the people and resources available in Haiti, that would utilize the excess waste plastic as the structural body for the nut sheller. The objective was to create a process in which waste plastic can be reused to form molds for peanut shellers, which in turn can provide a way for Haitians to build an enterprise around these devices, ultimately improving their quality of life.
Date
Fall 2008
Department
School of Engineering
Concentration/Emphasis
ENGR 215 — Introduction to Design
Advisor/Professor
Lonny Grafman
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