@Leyland Harrison Hi! Thanks for your comment. We are cognisant of the fact that our solution must encompass the entire life cycle of the product, but our overarching aim is to augment the efficacy of the circular, self sufficient model. There will be waste, undoubtedly, but it eschews the need to reprocess because excess fragments of the composite could easily be reintegrated with those from newer batches, enabling the cycle to continue for at least a few iterations and significantly reducing the total waste output over those cycles.

1. I believe that I should personally take more responsibility for recycling waste, a sensibility that I have been attempting to inculcate in myself for a while now. I also think that the gamut of parameters that allow a product to be recycled should ideally be far wider, and hope to develop a means to fix this. 2. Precipitating a paradigm shift in the way we teach engineering is certainly something I'd like to work on, not just to improve the level of engagement with the subject matter but also to groom future engineers to be responsible citizens. Of course, this would begin at a smaller scale by understanding, critiquing and bettering existing processes through the lens of sustainability. 3. I believe that the medical aspect of engineering is one that is given short shrift in developing regions, and I aim to create simple and scalable solutions for problems such as Neglected Tropical Diseases through more efficient engineering of materials and distribution of aid.