Describe how you have evaluated your project ideas against one or more of the SDGs.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a call to action to integrally address global environmental, social, and economic challenges. iGEM teams can answer this call with this prize. Demonstrate how you have evaluated your project ideas against one or more of the SDGs, how you’ve consulted with SDG stakeholders, and how you’ve begun to form collaborations with other iGEM teams around the SDGs. You’re encouraged to look back at previous iGEM projects to evaluate them against the SDGs, and build upon them.
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The section below is a separate, independently-written draft, produced by a team member outside the main documentation process. Kept here for reference and comparison; not yet fact-checked by team leadership.
The stated approach: touch a small number of UN Sustainable Development Goals in a real, defensible way, list only those, and skip the superficial ones rather than claiming credit across nine SDGs the project only touches lightly.
A full life-cycle analysis is described as beyond the scope of a project at this stage. What can be said: the cartridge is a long-life device, enzymes are produced in-cabin with no resupply mass, and monomers are re-used inside the closed loop — while the terrestrial footprint of building and testing the cartridge is acknowledged as non-trivial and not yet measured.
An explicit disclaimer: this is not a solution to terrestrial ocean plastic pollution. Industrial enzymatic recycling already exists and is being deployed at megatonne scale, and claiming otherwise on a student wiki would be misleading.
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