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May 20, 2022

EPA honors local student

By JOURNAL STAFF

MERCER ISLAND — Josephine “Josie” Barber, a junior at Mercer Island High School, and her project partner Mason Sufnarski, a senior at Marvin Ridge High School in Waxhaw, N.C., have earned an honorable mention in the EPA's Patrick H. Hurd Sustainability Award competition for their project, “Sustainable Subsistence: A Low-Cost Method of Greywater Recycling for Hydroponic Agriculture.”

The project seeks to find “an equitable solution to help communities deal with lower water availability, which impacts the soil acidity and causes major food shortages.” The three-part project focused on greywater recycling and using locally available organic materials to filter recycled greywater.


 
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