A CLIMATE-RELATED PROBLEM AND THE USE OF INNOVATION AND SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO MITIGATE THE ISSUE.

Nowadays, industrialization is moving along a new path. The mechanization of many manufacturing processes is progressing at a breakneck speed. The more industry rises, the more contaminated the environment becomes, making life for humans and animals miserable and uncomfortable. Tema is a Ghanaian industrial district that serves as the foundation for the majority of the country's industries. Industries emit a significant amount of carbon dioxide.

Carbon emissions' effects on respiration and rising global temperatures are felt not just by Africans, but by everyone on the planet. Tema is a highly industrialized zone in Ghana, with many industrial operations taking place at all hours of the day and night. Large-scale bakeries, cement and brick manufacturing, incinerators, and companies that use large amounts of fossil fuels to create the energy needed for their industrial operations all contribute significantly to the increased carbon content in the atmosphere. Africa's per capita carbon dioxide emissions in 2000 were 0.8 metric tonnes per person, according to the World Resources Institute, compared to 3.9 tonnes per person globally.

To create the same quantity of electricity, trash incineration emits 2.5 times the amount of carbon dioxide as a coal power station. National data produced by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and housed in their eGRID database backs up this claim. Cement manufacturing produces about 0.9 pounds of CO2 per pound of cement, according to the Portland Cement Association. Because cement makes up such a minor part of concrete's composition, a cubic yard of concrete (about 3900 lbs) produces roughly 400 lbs of CO2.

The key users and beneficiaries of our solution proposal are industrial-scale bakeries, cement and brick production, incinerators, and industries in Ghana's Tema industrial zone that rely on enormous volumes of fossil fuels to create the necessary quantity of energy for their industrial processes. Many workers in these industries suffer from respiratory ailments that cause them to live shorter lives and diminish productivity as their health deteriorates. When they are at work, they do not have access to good, clear oxygen because the manner in which they operate contaminates the oxygen available with carbon dioxide. Both production and human capital are depleted in businesses.

To help mitigate this issue, Project Carbosol uses an environmentally friendly method of reducing excessive carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere by using carbon sequestrated containers for plants and other burning materials, as well as the production of bricks by unicellular bacteria of the genus Synechococcus via carbon dioxide absorption.

Project Carbosol intends to address SDG 13 (Climate Action) and SDG 12 (Sustainable Development Goals) (Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure). The weather continues to deteriorate on a regular basis. In these parts of Ghana, the sun's intensity is growing. Carbon emissions from industrial-scale bakeries, cement, and brick manufacturing release a considerable amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, depleting the ozone layer and altering atmospheric conditions. This has also been linked to the development of respiratory difficulties in many people around the world. It is past time for us to get together as a group and tackle this problem.

The bricks are made in an environmentally benign manner that does not emit a large amount of carbon dioxide when compared to traditional cement and brick manufacturing methods but rather absorbs carbon dioxide to enable the synthesis of the bio-material needed to make these bricks. In comparison to ordinary brick, the bio-brick created has a high compressive strength of 9.16 N/mm2, according to the International Journal of ChemTech Research.

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