Rangitoto College Students Recycle Old Tyres & Waste Materials Into Pet-beds To Donate To Covid-Stricken Families
Five Rangitoto College students who took part in last year’s Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme have come up with an innovative solution to the large stockpiles of old unusable tyres laying around within their community.
Paws for a Cause members Oliver Zhang, Alex Zhang, Jasmine Jared, Emily Ren, and Max Ji started up initially in mid-2020 in response to the Covid lockdowns after recognizing that lower socioeconomic families were struggling to provide for themselves, let alone their beloved pet cat and dogs.
“We set out with the goal of donating pet beds and kennels to those in need within our local community after seeing an opportunity to take the mounds of unroadworthy tyres from our local mechanics and “upcycle” them into fashionable pet beds, thus giving birth to the first few iterations of our “ToughRuff Tyre Pet Beds.”
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