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Reader Submitted: Cheer Project: 100% Bio-Based and Biodegradable Pine Needle Composite

’Cheer Project’ is a research into pine needles in which the abundant and unwanted material is developed into a 100% bio-based and biodegradable composite material.

The entire process of production was designed to be practiced as a sustainable craft to help generate income in the rural areas of Himachal. It has been an experiment to understand the root of a local material and its potential and possibilities in an ever-increasing demand for alternatives for the production of sustainable objects.

With a forest cover of about forty thousand square kilometres in just Himachal Pradesh, the damage is incalculable with no significant solution to the problem yet

Process

Early experiments and prototypes

Early experiments and prototypes