Design by Nature

Celebrating ideas that inspire sustainable action

Scrub

"Wow, incredible research - I like the positive focus on wellbeing and making the most of water."

- Hubbub judge

Sarah Everett

Awarded 'Wild card' for her idea 'Scrub'

Graduating in 2020 from Loughborough University.

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Scrub is a kitchen product for student households. The system is designed to use the water leftover from cooking vegetables, to create liquid hand soaps, hand creams, washing up liquid or surface cleaner. Using Scrub reduces the user's water footprint by removing the need to buy ready made products from the cosmetics and toiletries industry; an industry which uses large amounts of water in the manufacture of these products. There is also a secondary benefit of reducing the amount of plastic thrown away, due to use of these single use products.

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"My longterm ambition is to work in either sustainable or medical design. My dream job would be to design the google homepage animations and games, when it changes for events and anniversaries."

- Sarah Everett

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