AOD Grad School

After 3 months of research and preparation with the mentor at AOD start-up school, AOD grad school students presented their pitch decks to , founder of

Many social enterprises are sprouting through start-up school. We are eager to see what happens next, as we await pre-seed rounds.✌️🤞

How many chewed gums have you seen in public spaces?

It is estimated that as little as 10% of chewing gum is disposed of correctly, which means that in the UK alone, local councils have to spend £60 million a year cleaning up the other 90%. 🤯

Rather than having this plastic go to waste, design students and hoped to give it a second life as skateboard wheels with a trial project in the city of Nantes, France, where the two are studying at the L'École de Design Nantes Atlantique. 🛹

And once it is worn out, the chewing gum wheel can once again be ground up and melted to create a new wheel, forming a closed-loop system.

How awesome is that? Your thrown away gum is not garbage anymore!