Thailand: Turning straw into gold | Global Ideas
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- Опубликовано: 5 янв 2020
- Huge amounts of rice straw are left over after the harvest in Thailand. Farmers often burn it, which is terrible for the environment. A young entrepreneur has found a new use for the material. Turned into paper, it can replace plastic food packaging.
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The best part of the story is her bringing the education back home to apply to her village!
Sure, but this part is not in the video.
@@5erazoR what? at around 1:10
She is a great human, nice to see people who are respectful, intelligent and productive succeeding.
@@cristinah7547 very humble too, quality trait.
I was coming to say just that :) have you guys seen Daughters of Destiny?
She cares about the country, environment and recycles everything. What a good idea. Good example for everyone to follow. Smart woman.
It's amazing how parents or those who finance your education always think that you aren't successful unless you become a doctor or lawyer or mechanical engineer. Props to her to showing them that waste is gold.
We have an old saying in the UK "Where there's muck there's money".
Brilliant mind does not lies in a specific field of specialization; it's where you find opportunities from a problem. Creative and amazing mind. My high school science research is handmade paper from rice stalks, cogon and pineapple leaves...
Please remove the term Mechanical Engineer
How is it waste? Burning the straw returns nutrients to the field.
@@peterhoulihan9766 it doesnt.
As a Thai, I am am extremely proud of this young lady's invention and I wish her every success, both commercially as well as in spreading and sharing her vision with others in Asia.
This is a wonderful Idea. Producing the package locally for local food vendors keeps money locally and gives more work to the local farmers. Great Idea.
Darth Vader LXXI
U heard she couldn’t afford
@Afika K
Once the banks feel comfortable with her business and she can show that the idea is good, she will get the loans for the equipment, plus the government will help her.
I would like it to go full circle. Grow rice, sell stalks, make plates,bowls and utensils, gather soiled product and compost back into the farm lands from whence it came (bonus foodstuff leftovers!).
These ideas are very common but they will remain useless as long as plastics is used because Plastic is very cheap compared to this. But she can export it to western nation their she will get good price
She's already exporting the processed Straw to India, so they must have the equipment to process it into food containers and it must be competitive. Right now, the price of Oil is fairly low, but once it gets over $100 US a barrel, the rice Straw route looks much better, plus you have the benefits of keeping the money within the local economy. Those who live in 3rd World Countries know the real cost of paying in Dollars or Euros for Oil and Equipment.
What an enterprising, productive member of the planet! The kind of influencer the world needs.
I live in Northern Thailand where this was filmed and from February through to April the air pollution is horrendous as the whole country and neighbouring countries are literally burning.....so kudo's to this young woman and I really hope this can take off in a big way
Genius girl.she must receive a recognition in her genius invention.
Magnificent this young lady deserves a medel 🏆 And her grandparents should be very very proud of her 💜😚
I will give her a ...medal. Is she single?
Maria Carter 👍
how about their parents?
@@AK-kr3uy They have disappeared to make money instead of caring for their daughter. That is the asian way, money first, family second. But their insane brains kid themselves that it is the other way around.
@@sailaab How long have you been in the chair? And does your psych do you for free? I don't know any good doctors, but keep looking, because the current one is not working. Is your family riddled with mental problems? Or have you not met your family?
We here, in Nepal use straw for different purpose. We use it for making traditional shoes out of it. We also soak it in water , and then weave it into straw mats , chairs for home. They're also used for making different things traditionally
heyy sandip,
this is vishu i want to know something more from u, please share ur messaging no or whatsapp no
May I know how its made. Any relevant video link available please share
@@govardhank3146 I may not be able to provide you links, as there aren't much videos or documentary videos on it, but you can search " local nepali mat" and you wil get some videos on youtube about it 😊
@@topmost6265 How can I help you?
I also want to start that unique & nature positive Activity, but need information about their.
This is wonderful that this young woman has taken a waste byproduct and has turned it into something useful, biodegradable and sustainable. God bless her🙏🏻❤️✝️
pemela how are you doing reply to me
Should set up a Go find me campaign so she can makes the containers herself and continue her great work of saving the planet.
tell that to coca cola, who don't use any longer glass bottles because it costs more than plastic..........
The planet doesn't need saving. It will be just fine, with out humans.
Bro shes an entrepreneur not a charity case. That would straight shame her and her family.
@@ryananthony7115 "Save the planet"? Sounds like a religion.
@@kentneumann5209 we kinda like here though, so we'll keep on trying :)
this is amazing Philippines should copy this no need for styrofoam packaging
@Mainul Hassan right
We should stop sending our dumps to the Philippines ...
We usualy use that straws to grow mushrooms.
@@lifelinerodz7703 Very interesting 👍
@@lifelinerodz7703 yeah but not all many are using sawdust as their medium.
We are making papers from straw for centuries now. Rather than cutting tree to make papers why cant we use the straws.
Yeah
The paper quality is different. There are hundreds if not thousand paper types and they all have different characteristics and purposes. And for that, they have to be made from different processes and/or raw materials.
let me tell you a magic word.....HEMP
There's the role of government. If government becomes strict in these cases maybe world will be a greener place.
It’s all about money and corporate greed.
The beaming granny's face was the best part. DW is cranking out great content like this all the time. Thanx
felt so proud watching this. I want a follow up to see if she managed to buy the production machines for the containers
Nice to see Indian manufacturers helping out Thai small businesses, they should do the same with Indian farmers, here stubble burning is a major cause of air pollution
Yes I thought that was strange that India wanted to import rice straw, but apparently it's a new process and so after it is proven to be cheaper than petroleum products I'm sure India will get set up similar operations.
Pak De
Maybe the Indian manufacturer has found a way to do it cheaply.
Thai business can get them started
Mayur Karanth great explanation. Curious as to why aren’t Thai farmers using it to feed their livestock?
use it fore heating houseor cook and in same time make BIOCHAR
There's always a way to get around the problem of funds. When I was a young man, one of my jobs was working in a factory that made large plastic flower pots. I used to develop equipment to automate the mold stations. If it wasn't made in house, it was made locally and the plastic we sourced from the telephone company. They used to completely recycle phones that were turned back in. The plastic housings were not reused, but remade into pellets like new resin. We used to get prime quality ABS at 1/10 the cost of new resin.
I have bought machine tools that were made in Thailand, and they were top quality. That indicates to me that the local economy has the skill set to do the job, Just figure out the process and make the equipment in-house.
Sounds like more pollution.
Strictly speaking, the straw should be returned to the land where it grew, as a natural mulch or fertilizer, otherwise the soil becomes more and more depleted of nutrients. As it is, they are shipping important micro-elements out of the country.
Rotten straw emits methane a greenhouse gas that's what they said in the video.
@@anusreesanirudhan2688 Then how do we naturally replenish our soils? Artificial fertilizer is not the answer either. I would genuinely like to know what would be the best long-term solution. In my garden I keep a constant layer of mulch to protect and enrich the soil, and the worm activity underneath is phenomenal. Worms are a sign of healthy soil.
The way nature recycle the straw is for grazing animals to consume it and poop it back out and mixed into the soil. And has been found to be far better for the soil than mixing the straws back into the soil or burning it. But this story does remove more nutrients out of the soil used by the farms.
Confucius said! “In a fix there’s always a solution”.
Ingenious woman and beautiful as well.
Congratulations Thailand.
Best of luck always.....
Barry Julian Waldron yes very good idea and recycle them better plastic containers and forms
Indeed!!
Great product that should really take off worldwide.
If fast food chains were serious in their commitment to the environment they'd have adopted it years ago. Status quo ; trading off to India production costs (energy & labour) rendering it unable to compete with bottom line cost benefit of existing materials used. ESG vs microplastic contamination is just a tool of the asset managers who value profit only when they've worked out the mechanism to justify further human enslavement and control at their various bone china banquet events (inc private jet travel) worldwide. The interviewed street food vendor operates in an honest real world understanding her paid for education corporate professors visions, scaling and product delivery. He might also consider a little local banana leaf origami with stapler to keep his underprivileged entrepreneurial daughter a chance to shine when the compliance police arrive.
Ypu can also grow mushrooms on rice straw
I does that.....even I am doing now...
How can that be done?
Would any straw be good for this?
Thanks😊
@@Cat-zn6pl yes but only straw (pea, rice, barley, wheat), hay has mixed plants/weeds and wont work because of the seeds hold mould that kills mushroom spores 😊
That is good that the rice straw is being used to make disposable plates as it helps the environment in several ways and also give money to the farmers also. We need containers like that here in the U.S., Canada, and E.U. countries and then the rest of the world.
Nice work! A community working together for the betterment of all. Her grandmother is a true beauty, you can see her soul just beaming! We should all be proud also of the parents who helped to raise this lovely lady.
I'm gonna start the same business in my hometown. Wish me good luck. 😊
do you have the technique? I wish you luck when you really mean it.
Have you find something if not pls contact me.
Best of luck
aarav singh if you can please help me to find the technical aspects of this. I will start this at my village.
Hello dilip will let you know as I also want to do the same.
Very innovative, another smart country Thailand.
I love seeing stories like these. Proof that one person can change the world one small village at a time.
Love Thailand and Thai people,.... from India.
It's funny to notice that India is importing these when in India there are enough of straw and the same is getting burnt by the farmers here.
Dude they don't burn whole straw only few leftover from rice cultivation
@@adarshpk7525 if you meant to say they here to be indian farmers than probably you don't belong to famer's family and you are from one of the metro cities and not at all from Delhi.
Actually farmers didn't burn it in rest of areas. Only Punjab and Haryana farmers are doing it. Rest of India used these straws to feed their animals.
There is a lot of demand for rice straw as animal feed... Only that which got wasted due to water logging is burnt because it can't be recovered... The sugarcane straws are burnt en mass - need to find a way to use that one instead of burning...
@@gmailgmail9627 I'm from Kerala. I once did rice farming.I used "they " that doesn't mean I don't know anything about them
Thai people so humble
What an amazing entrepreneur! Helping the farmers and the planet!
This strikes me as insanely good business venture located in any wheat/rice belt. What a brilliant young woman.
I wish can get all that straw for animal feed, mulching, and composting.
You can still buy Straw at your Feed and Seed. It still costs money. Even though Straw is a nearly worthless by-product of Grain production, it takes labor and energy to get it to your door.
how to poses them?
animals can't digest straw.
I.thought great to compost wj th human waste. Make good compost
We're talking about composting, not feeding Straw to Animals.
*Educated girl come back to her village
Rice farmer income : STONK⬆️
Great comment!
Real strong Women getting things done 💪💃
Great job love. I could never see the sense in burning something as valuable as organic mulch.
i like her determinations towards her community to help to have an extra income after rice harvesting season.
Simple changes like this will change the world. Great leadership and initiative. Go Thailand!
Please export these paper plates to the US. Imagine how many plastic plates we could have saved on holidays. This will be a great environment friendly alternative.
Bushangels Great idea!! Maybe you can import them:) But USA has a tonne of FDA regulations that cause nightmare for importers importing anything thats got to do with food. (Since this product is recycled from organic waste). No wonder Americans find it easy to simply use plastics. Moreover, I am sure something like this can be produced locally in the US with corn stalks after harvest? Not too sure.
I see recycled/biodegradable paper plates in the stores. They're significantly more expensive than regular, but they are available.
Chinet and Hefty come to mind.
They can be decomposed afterwards
make straw blocks for housing. there. end of the housing crisis.
PS. This is such BS
@@lostintime8651 I hate to say it but your right
What a great example of a cottage industry that could be used in many rice growing regions and be a huge benefit to the local population as well as the planet.
Thank you, Jaruwan, for your effort of preserving our earth.
Good to hear this story.
Degradable products from rice straw are very interesting.
I really appreciate her idea,, wow just wow
I love she came back home to apply all she has learnt. I wish her great luck with that wonderful mind of hers.
Wow never melt a more innovative women like her. She is so simple, genuine hard working and advance than any common women.
This is how we are going to deal with pollution and "climate change" innovative ideas and caring individuals working towards solutions, not giving a criminal and wasteful governments another (carbon) tax
trifecta t Exactly trifecta.
Properly composting plant matter doesn't create methane, it is only when the piles of plant matter become anaerobic that they release methane.
Patrick Murphy exactly! It’s the same with hay
@@blank1778 I wonder what is the nutrition value of fermented rice straw and what animals are suited to consume rice straw silage? I would imagine at the least it would be compatible for use as goat feed.
Yes. The clean paddy filled with water and growing rice would make more methane than any straw. Unless after the rice is picked and there is still water in the paddy (which I think does not happen) and then straw is put in the water, then methane might increase. I am sure that the ripe rice is picked from drained paddies, so there should be no methane with or without straw.
You still get Carbon Dioxide, not as bad as Methane but still a problem. No matter what you do, it will still generate greenhouse gases. The only solution is use less or a lower population.
Yes, and also she just took all the minerals and nutrients for soil organisms away by taking the straws. The soil will be infertile faster, and they will be dependent on industrial fertilizers. Anything unnatural that seems like a good solution is actually not a solution if we look closely. I was hoping she would use straws to build LOCAL homes. No need for take away food, she just wants to get rich.
Bagus banget olahan bambunya
Bukan bambu mbak..., tapi jerami padi..
Never has a video needed accurate subtitles more.
Smart young lady makes her country proud.
Heartwarming and inspiring
This is fantastic. Very practical.
Sir, your channel is very informative. Very natural love for nature. Thanks from heart
in the Philippines we use rice straw for mushroom culture and rice hull for cooking.
How much straw is burnt, in the rice field?
@@rolfpoelman3486 its free
@@minester625 How much rice straw is burnt in Philippines, in the rice field ie not for cooking?
@@minester625 What's free?
@@rolfpoelman3486 rice straw is free in the Philippines no need to buy it 😀
Finally some good eco environment product to fight plastic n polystyrene..good on you girl.. 🙏
I heard the container cost more to produce than the polystyrene..
You go girl!! Way to go!! 💪🏻💪🏻
Remarkable initiative sends a message to entrepreneurs.
Blessings for a successful product!
Cool idea. Question: what is the fuel source to provide the energy to boil the straw for 4 hours?
Good question, my first guess would be more straw? Or biochar?
Rice hull
As it contains methane, may be a biogas plant. Or electricity, if it is cheaper there.
make BIOCHAR while cooking!!! fertilizer!!
should be nuclear in the future
WoW - Kudos to this young entrepreneur - very impressed
Beautiful story! Gods blessings upon u all
The best farmers (even outdoing the Thai) are in India, they turn straw into milk (cattle fodder)
You're mistaken my friend. Crop burning is a much more serious issue in India. Every winter, cities like Delhi and, in fact, most of North India becomes a gas chamber, thanks to all the stubble burning.
Single use plastic and styrofoam plates, bags etc contribute to massive soil pollution, so this a brilliant initiative.
They burn the straw not even bother to chop it that’s why there is pollution
we been recycling straw for 1000nds of years . feed it to the cows get manure , put manure on the fields and grow food byproduct is straw and recycle again.
This is so impressive and important on multiple levels. I live in Chiang Mai and the smoke is extremely bad when all the farmers burn before rainy season. So this could help with the detrimental health and economic affects of the smoke. Further, this helps solve the plastic waste problem as well. And it also provides extra income for these farmers who are often paid so little after doing so much work. Truly a win/win/win for everyone. I pray this grows and gets adopted as standard practice all over SE Asia.
Great video. I wish all the progress to her enterprise.
She is better than greeta tunderberg instead of complaining she is actually solving pollution problems and also creating jobs for people.
And making profits out of it. Let's not pretend it's altruism. Yet, I admire the girl.
Tedison Thats the most important thibg, solution who benifits economically are real and practical solution
Every girl with some commonsense is better than that Greeta.
I totally agree, Greeta is all mouth!!..What has she done to solve any climate issues??..action speaks louder than words..
She is useless!!.
Brilliant! I wish there was a link to invest in this woman's dream. I'm totally behind her!
How inspiring! Thanks for sharing such an educational content. More power!- New Subscriber here!
I am very proud of this lady. She's gift to the nature and a blessing from the nature 🙏
A great initiative... Hopefully to be repeated by many across the globe. Thank you.
Let’s do the math.
1.) leaving it in the field as compost: Letting the straw rot in the field gives off x amount of methane, but provides nutrients for the next crop, and provides weed control and a bio environment for infinite numbers of organisms.
2.) straw containers: spend energy harvesting the straw, transporting it, processing it, including an epic amount of energy to boil it for many hours. Shipping it half way accross the world to India for further processing. Shipping it back to be used as a food tray for a mere 60 seconds only to be thrown out, to decompose, just like it could have done in the field without the extraordinary expenditure of greenhouse gasses through transportation, processing, etc
India is only an intermediate step. The entrepreneur wants to produce the dishes from rice straw herself. But she needs investment funds for this. The rice straw used should also always come from the immediate vicinity. This is a local economic model.
Costello i agree. It’s not scalable because it only sort of makes sense as a very localized production. So why not use the rice straw in a more efficient way? Just off he top of my head, you could just run it through a chopper to and then mix it in an organic glue/water and let it soak only for a few minutes, run through a chopper, and hydraulically press it into molded pallets. That takes ZERO thermal energy, it’s a MUCH faster production, and actually makes a functional product that is highly re-usable, biodegradable, and can be sent anywhere in the world. AND, you don’t have to spend money shipping it out overseas to your buyers. You can sell it to local buyers in any industrial area. They will send it out into the world, it will be resold and distributed all over, by various supply chains, just like shipping containers.
Honestly, I don’t understand why they down just plow it under and use it to amend the soil every season. You can’t keep taking from the soil and not giving back. That’s by FAR, the most effective, efficient, and easiest way to deal with it. You can turn over 160 acres with a disker in a couple hours.. it’s no effort at all, and you gain hundreds of tons of nutrients to your land, increasing productions and encouraging a healthy microbiome in the soil.
Thank you for such wonderful story of hope!
Great effort and smart thinking!
Excellent for the young entrepreneurs, hopefully they will demand for environmental friendly products for this items as it can be a very useful for the takeaway business 🙏🙏🙏
Indeed a very nice idea. Must be implemented on a large scale.
how are you doing
This is a amazing and inspiration Lady.
Very original, love your video,
Great job👍👍👍
I love this, this is wonderful
Punjab and haryana should practice this so that Delhi can be saved
Banks lend to hindu rashtar extremists only in India. You ask ND Modi to get me funds and I can set up facilities for paddy straw processing in Punjab.
@@gurindersingh8109 Kya gurudwar ache kaam karney bandh Kiya Kya.
@@gurindersingh8109 no no paaji bank mostly given loan to khal!$tan! b*dhave also
@@gurindersingh8109 kuch bi..
@@gurindersingh8109 The difference between greedy money hungry bad mouthers and hardworking people is that hardworking people don't blame others for their own failure. Hope you understand.
I have so much respect for this lady, seems like not only is she doing a great thing but she's done it while also experiencing some resistance instead of support. Did I miss mention of how much she's currently managing to save from being burnt? I'm sure its only a small % but hopefully the idea spreads and it becomes a great export product for them internationally
a hopeful story. nice, encouraging
Grow mushroomson the rice paste then use its waste as compost.
Co2 is released during mushroom growth cycle. It also could be used to accelerate plant growth if vented into a green house. Then compost of mushies could be the rices' soil. We are told we are in a crisis of resources but I feel its a lack of imagination
That's a lot of straws to use actually.
Biochar is what I would like to see of the straw. And activated then return to the soil. Sequester the Carbon is a win win for the farmers soil and carbon pollution.
I think that is a pretty impressive thing. Actually, very empressive.
Good story and very friendly to the environment. Great job. Thankyou
Great work Thailand.!!!huge respect from New Zealand 🇳🇿 awesome that simple things can make a huge environmental impact.you are showing the world that any country can help clean this planet up and you are leading by example!!great👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I love it. We need more women like her in all communities
"People" like her
Beautiful Grandma bless Grandfather
Nice and fruitfull demonstration. thank you.
Thailand farm update: rice farms soil now depleted of minerals due to farmers no longer returning the carbon ash back into the soil where they grow the rice. Rice now devoid of any nutritional value.
Fires do not happen in nature ash just blocks out sunlight. Also the stems absorb nutrients even after being burnt. Also roots of plants perish with fires damaging the emviorment
@@insectbite1714 While burning the straw does damage the environment, it is a proven way to break down the nutrients, making it available to next years crops.
“We women are STRONG” 💪🏿🙏🏿👍🏿 Much RESPECT
LOL you'd cheer when a woman can open her own jar.
@@slappy8941 😂😅😆
@@slappy8941 i'm dying😆🤣
She didn't say that. It's a mistranslation.
Wow, Great job, Keep at your research, I admire your devotion to make change happen.
In South India rice straw is purchased for feeding the cattle, which though doesn’t contain any appreciable quantity of nutrients, provides roughage which gets converted into cow dung which, when composted, forms the most important organic manure. On
In sicily i the 50’s they made paper from grain hay.
Great job, 👍👍👍 Congratulations for creating jobs and taking care of smoke pollution. 🙏
good one from you i need your reply
Great work!
Hats off to this lady
I'll do the same here in the philippines.
This is a wonderful idea.
Looking forward for her. All the best
Wonderful idea by this clever young woman.
She deserves success.