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Ink has been an important product for centuries and will continue to be useful in the future.
Some printer inks are so expensive that they cost more per ounce than luxury perfumes or
even champagne. Many high-quality inks are pricier than famous brands like Dom Pérignon,
making them surprisingly costly.

Ink is a primary liquid used for writing, printing, and drawing. Ancient civilizations, like the
Chinese, made ink from natural materials such as plant dyes and animal-based binders.
Over time, ink has played a major role in communication, learning, and creativity. It is
needed to produce books, newspapers, and important documents. Artists use ink for
painting and calligraphy, while it is also used in security for printing money, official
documents, and fingerprints. Factories use ink for making labels and packaging, and it is
also used in modern technology like 3D printing and medical applications.

Our project focuses on turning food waste into ink, which helps solve both waste and
pollution problems that scour our world. By recycling food waste, we reduce landfill waste
and lower gas emissions. This also creates a sustainable replacement to the traditional ink,
which often contains harmful chemicals. Using food waste to make ink gives new value to
trashed materials and supports a repeating cycle where resources are reused instead of
wasted. This change can truly help industries like printing, packaging, and art become more
environmentally friendly. Which can help out our world by means of more information
through newspapers, books etc. and also those who are fond of drawing and creating art.

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At the same time, food waste is a big problem. Every day, large amounts of food are thrown
away and end up in landfills. As it rots, it produces methane, a gas that severely harms the
environment. This waste also means that water, energy, and labor used to produce the food
go to waste. Reducing food waste is important to protect the planet for a greener place to
live in for more generations to come and to use our resources more wisely which can also
benefit our skills in resourcefulness.

As we find methods to convert food waste materials into usable products, it is essential
to reduce the food waste problems, such as greenhouse emissions, so converting food
waste materials into usable products. Specifically, transforming food scraps such as
avocado pits and onion skins into viable inks containing less harmful pollutants than
commercially available inks that have chemicals in their ingredients is an effective way
to achieve our goal. In addition to the aforementioned scraps, coffee grounds and beet
peels also contain natural pigments which have the ability to be harvested, refined and
tattooed into usable ink. Food byproducts that would have otherwise been deemed as
waste can be boiled, filtered, or fermented to produce rich, natural dyes. Furthermore,
these pigments containing strong bound materials such as gum arabic combined with
natural preservatives like vinegar or ethanol can be transformed into inks that can be
stored and utilized over a longer time period without losing their value. In addition to
conserving and preserving the environment, the food waste can also serve a second
function by reducing the dependence on the ever so increasing availability of synthetic
inks containing ethyl alcohol and other chemicals which plague the [Link]
dyes. Furthermore, these pigments containing strong bound materials such as gum
arabic combined with natural preservatives like vinegar or ethanol can be transformed
into inks that can be stored and utilized over a longer time period without losing their
value. In addition to conserving and preserving the environment, the food waste can
also serve a second function by reducing the dependence on the ever so increasing
availability of synthetic inks containing ethyl alcohol and other chemicals which plague
the environment.

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By testing with different formulas and methods, our science investigatory project seeks
to determine whether turning food waste into inks are obtainable. To find out which food
waste resources suit the most for the color. We will test the vividness, consistency, and
endurance of every possible resource that we think will be convenient to use. And in
terms of writing and printing we will test the thickness of the ink if the color is too thick
or too thin, drying time since we don't want our ink to be easily blur or smudge, and the
smudge-resistant of the ink since we don't want our color to be smudged or to fade
easily. Our goal for our research is to create a more effective and eco-friendly
alternative for ink, and implement food waste reduction and have a more ecologically
more approach in terms of daily writing, printing, and drawing by promoting the use of
sustainable and eco-friendly ink.

Nowadays it is important to be able to discover other resources or raw materials for things
that we normally use like ink. With our study we are able to recycle waste materials and turn
them into something useful. With that we are able to save the environment and save money
as well.