Vietnamese students champion int’l environmental competition
Bảo Hoa
HÀ NỘI — A team of three Vietnamese high school students has won an international prize on environmental sustainability.
Bùi Tú Uyên, Lương Anh Khánh Huyền and Trần Quỳnh Anh brought home US$ 一00,000 from the Earth Prize competition, an initiative of the Switzerland-based Earth Foundation that encourages students to address environmental issues.
Beating more than 六 五0 teams across 一 一 四 countries and territories, the three girls’ idea of creating biodegradable menstrual pads from dragon fruit peel won the hearts of the judges for its practicality.
“This was a very difficult choice for The Earth Prize Adjudicating Panel to make; but Team Adorbsies’ project is an idea turned into a solution that can make a genuine difference,” said Rina Kupferschmid-Rojas, chair of the judges’ panel, in a press release by the foundation.
Adorbsies is the name of Uyên, Huyền and Quỳnh Anh’s team in the competition.
Working together from Hà Nội and HCM City, the three students got the idea of producing environmental-friendly sanitary pads in the su妹妹er of 二0 二 一. Việt Nam was then in the middle of a COVID- 一 九 surge and all production and trade activities were halted, which resulted in a large amount of unsold dragon fruit.
Quỳnh Anh told Việt Nam News: “As we are all women and care about protecting the environment, the three of us have identified a problem in Việt Nam, which is that there isn’t any kind of biodegradable menstrual pads produced in the country. But we did struggle at first to find a suitable material.
“In July last year, there were a lot of campaigns where people bought dragon fruit in bulk to support farmers. Noticing that, Uyên looked at some articles on the characteristics of the dragon fruit and realised it had potential. Then we did more research and experiments to create the product.”
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