After having my tendon severed from a knife accident in the 12th grade, I found myself lost after surgery. 

                                                                   Stuck in splints and braces, my right hand was  dysfunctional for months, and for the first time in my life, 

                                                      I couldn’t use my hands to build. I channeled my pain into the few things I was passionate about and could still barely do:

Gardening

Making Jewelry

Innovation

And my Love for Earth

I knew that earth was calling me to find a solution to the pandemic problem of plastic pollution, but it took me losing my comfortability to open my eyes to a new perspective, pyrolysis. I began intense research, roaming every corner of the internet for everything I could find on pyrolysis. My Sherlock Holmes skills served me well. I found an insturctables guide on how to make a pyrolysis reactor at home: “DIY Plastic to Oil”. Seeing that showed me that I myself can not only speak of an innovative change, but BE and DO the innovative change. So I got to working, and constructed my first ever Pyrolysis Reactor.