Green Heroes: Saveggy

They create Bio-based edible vegan coating that extends the shelf life of fresh fruit and vegetables.

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00:00Around six to seven hundred millions of cucumbers in the EU are covered by plastic film wrap.

00:17There are many benefits of plastic film wrap, but the plastic film wrap also has some serious

00:24negative impacts on the environment, on sea life and on the earth.

00:38With this project what we try to do is basically eliminating the usage of single plastic.

00:45What we do is replacing the plastic with a coating which is edible, we don't need to

00:51wash it off, you can basically take the cucumber and consume it as it is. We extract these materials

00:58from nature, we mix them together and after mixing them together we apply them on the

01:05cucumbers by spraying or dipping the cucumbers into the liquid. Our coating will provide a

01:11protection against gases, water losses and also microorganisms. 45 percent of fruits and vegetables

01:19get wasted in the world and 70 percent of fresh water is consumed to produce those fruits and vegetables.

01:32Our dream is not having any hungry people on the planet,

01:36protecting the planet from unsustainable actions of humans and contributing to growth of economies.

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