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Gabrielan10



Registered: February 2014
City/Town/Province: SAN JUAN
Posts: 1
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Útil LLC., is an environmental company that was created by a group of high school students in the year of 2013 and sells furnisher constructed from recycled car tires. Útil LLC. was created to reduce the problematic of excessive tire waste found in Puerto Rico, while the clients enjoy an innovative and different style of seats. Nevertheless, even though Útil LLC. is a company, we consider our work as voluntary to help save the world, since we do not get paid.


Furthermore, Útil LLC. has had the benefit of achieving its goals as a company due to the feedback given by the Puerto Rican people and is currently planning to expand. Tire by tire, Útil LLC. provides a healthier environment for the individuals who reside in the island.


It all started the moment I was selected by my teachers to participate in a green entrepreneurship competition, in the year of 2011. This competition conducted by Green PReneurs Program, was based on the creation of a prototype company that solved a problem in the school or society. After months of training and conferences on how to build a company, the team made a brainstorming on what product we could produce that would benefit the students of University Gardens High School and after some time we came up with the idea of fabricating seats, since our school lacked them. We also thought of all the possible product we could use to build the seats while contributing to our island, for this reason we came up with the ideas of used tires since Puerto Rico has the crisis of using 4,000,000 tires annually and only recycling 800,000.
Therefore, the prototype company, Útil corp., constructed a single seat called U-seat that is made of two used tires divided by a sheet of wood and a cushion; also we created a six seats division with a table in the middle for the use of a group of people. My prototype company won both regional and state competition and we received so much positive feedback that we decided that our model company could become a real one if we worked for it... so we did.


Around a year later, Útil LLC. was created with the purpose of reducing the waste of tires on Puerto Rico and helping the impact it had upon society. Besides the diminishing of waste, our company promotes the creation and use of recycling materials to help Earth become a better place to reside in. Útil LLC. is currently composed of high school and university students that want to make a change in the world. The company’s product is the U-seat, the main product and the Little U, which is a seat for children and is constructed with the use of one tire. Since we had background knowledge due to the competition, the group had already a structure established, helping us be an efficient company. To sell our products we have gone to industrial conferences and fairs, visited schools and stores, made a facebook page, participated in Puerto Rico’s most listened radio station (in which I was the person talking) and appeared in a newspaper and television show.


Útil LLC. is currently establishing new products and ideas that will keep beneficing Puerto Rico’s society by reducing garbage; moreover, we are helping a problematic by confectioning furnisher. Now, the company’s future goal is to be expanded to the world and convince people to start recycling and helping our Earth become a healthier place to live in.
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Hours Volunteered: 100
Volunteers: 6
Authors Age & Age Range of Volunteers: 17-20
Trash Removed/Recycled from Environment (kg): 110
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hslsewasansthan

Registered: May 2014
City/Town/Province: lucknow
Posts: 1
May 3, 2014 7:01am

Congrats


Keep it up!
Some day, everyone will realize this.


Thanks
HSL SEWA SANSTHAN