Team:Lethbridge HS/Description
Background Research
In deciding our project we thought that we should choose something that would apply to our community as well as the international community. THis idea led us to look into products that are used worldwide, and one of the things we found was ink. It is used in schools, homes and most commonly workplaces. We then decided to go to the public and explore the idea of an innovation for ink as a viable product. After some research, we discovered that the ink is made up of three main parts; the resin, the solvent, and the colorant. After a bit more research we found that the colorant makes up over 50% of the cost of ink. This led us to investigate why, and we found that the production of colorants and pigments creates some horrible byproducts.
Deciding our Project
After our initial research and our investigation of applicability we decided that we would do a project on ink. We were then forced to decide what part of ink we would tackle. The cost breakdown of ink led us to decide to create a colorant and the information regarding the harmful byproducts of pigment production led us to the environmental approach.
Maybe we could have the image of pigment production here, the one that shows the harmful byproducts.
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