Enactus Project Charter 2021/2022

Team/ University: Project Title:

Start date:
(the beginning of implementation) Issue Date:
(Date of submitting the Project
End date: charter)
(the end of all implementation steps,
production phase continues)
Phase: Start date:
(if it’s a continuing project):
□ New project

No. of alumnus involved in the project (If Potential project stakeholders:

found): (Key partners, suppliers,
sponsors, advisors, etc.) …
1. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY:
 Provide executive summary/quick overall view of the project, highlighting
the need/problem/issue that the project is tackling)

Smokers around the world buy roughly 6.5 trillion cigarettes each year. That’s 18 billion
every day. While most of a cigarette’s innards and paper wrapping disintegrate when
smoked, not everything gets burned. Whatever their direct health impact on or benefit to
smokers, cigarette filters pose a serious litter and toxic waste disposal problem. Close to
4.5 trillion cigarette filter is left over, only an estimated third of which make it into the
trash. The rest are casually flung into the street or out a window. Filters from smoked
cigarettes contain a significant amount of tar trapped in it. The tar contains thousands of
chemicals and heavy metals. Both of these organic and inorganic constituents can leach
into the soil or water sources and pose threat to animals and plants, from there they can
enter into the food chain as well and have been reported to be toxic to humans and cause
a variety of diseases including inflammatory lung diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and
cancers. Smoking in Egypt is prevalent as 19 billion cigarettes are smoked annually in the
country making it the largest market in the Arab world. In the past few years smoking in
Egypt has reached an all-time high with an estimated twenty percent as fifteen million
people regularly using tobacco products.

 What is the solution (Product/service) that your project is offering to this

problem? Who is your target audience?

After research, and in an attempt to find a way to get rid of cigarette waste and
reduce its harm, our solution is recycling cigarettes into three main products; cotton
sheets from cigarette butts, mosquito repellents and insects from cigarettes paper,
and insecticide from tobacco, and all with perfect price compared with those in the
marker with the same quality or more effective.
Target audience: Ma'akom Association for Social Aid.
2. HIGH LEVEL PROJECT SCOPE:
 What are the objectives of your project? (Each objective should meet the S.M.A.R.T
criteria)

We want to achieve our goal in order to help people start their projects that don’t need
money and to get rid of cigarette waste, which causes great pollution to the environment and
causes great disasters, we decided to take all these wastes and work to do our project that
would make a profit and benefit the largest number of people.

Our target audience is charitable organizations so we made a deal with a charitable

organization called ‘maakom’ in order to help the largest number of women who are looking
for job opportunities. We decided to help them and provide them with our project and teach
them everything about it so that they can work with it and get a suitable income from it, and
this is our biggest success.

After that we need cigarettes to do the project so we made a deal with café ‘Caffee No.233’
to provide us with all cigarettes we need in addition to that, the basis of our project is
available in all places, and obtaining it is easy because now no one knows a non-smoker, so
our project is based on something very available.

Our project is that we will use cigarettes to make three things cotton sheets from filters of
cigarettes, mosquito repellents and insects from cigarettes paper, and insecticide from
tobacco, our target to do 10 kg per week of cotton that coming from filter.

The whole project is done in one year, the applied research was from 20 February to May and
the prototype was from 18 march to 5 April.

Prototype:
First prototype (testing prototype):

1-Bring cigarettes and put them in the sieve to remove any dust from them
2- Separate them into three things, first is the cigarette paper, the second is the filter, and the
third is tobacco
3- Put the filters in isopropyl alcohol with sodium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate (one
spoon from each one for each one liter of isopropyl alcohol) and let them for 24 hours
3-Bring them and dry them
4-Put them in tetra aluminum chloride (about 8 ml) for half an hour and let them to dry
5- Add H2O2 for half an hour (quarter cup per liter )

Second prototype :

Similler to first prototype but we chopped the filters in bowl

-Put the cigarette papers in water with starch in bowl to get paste and let it to dry to make
mosquito repellents and insects from it
 -Put tobacco with dish soap and water and let it one hour to get insecticide
Third prototype :
We use this filters when they become as cotton to make cotton sheet
1-Blend it & Make pulp:
Fill up a Hollander with water and 5 kg cotton
2-Keep blending for about 6 hours until it’s a pulp.
3- pour the mixture through strainer to get the pulp from water
4- Fill up the box with the blended pulp, about 1/3 to 1/2 way.
5-Add more water to the vat. The more pulp to water, the thicker your paper will be. (This
water can be used many times because no chemicals are used)

3-sheet formation:
*Hold the mould screen side up, and place the deckle evenly on top. *Holding them together
at a 45-degree angle, dip the mould and deckle to the bottom of the vat and scoop up,
holding the mould and deckle horizontally.
*As you lift it out of the slurry, give it a quick shake back and forth, and left to right to align
the fibers and make a more uniform sheet. Stop shaking before the sheet is fully drained.
*Let the water drain to a drip

4-pressing
using hand press

5- let it in closed room to dry

 What is the Value Proposition of your project?

To customers: offering an new alternative for papers and getting essential

products like mosquito repellent and anticipated spray with lower price
than existing in the market with the same quality or more effective than it
To environment: cigarettes wastes have a dangerous influence on the
environment as it is the most abundant form of plastic that is not
decomposes
To the beneficiary: a new source of income will be added

 Highlight the box(es) that corresponds to your project’s scope:

Agriculture Technology Aiding Disabilities

Sanitation Tourism Medical/Health
Employment Water Purification Irrigation
 Education Rural Facilities Housing
Development
Energy Industries/Products Women Empowerment
Transportation Environment Waste Management
 If your project scope wasn’t mentioned, state it here:
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3. PROJECT STRATEGIES:
 (What are the people, planet and prosperity factors affecting your
target audience? How will the project address these factors?)

Factors How will you address it?

- Halwan in Cairo has women with 49% of
People the total population in this area, and half of
the women there are housewives, 50% of
these housewives don’t have a job(12.25%
of the women of Helwan), thus the
difficulty of living and the expenses of
children.
- Helwan has about 120 cafes, which makes
the cigarette waste in it very large and the
air pollution rate as well, in addition to the
cigarette waste found in every meter of the
road
-Helwan has a significant unemployment
rate
-Helwan is located in the south of Cairo,
Planet the capital of the country, on the eastern
bank of the Nile.
- Since our project aims to collect the largest amount of
cigarettes and remove their filters to get cotton, therefore we
need a very large number of human power that extract filters
from cigarettes, which works to provide job opportunities for
these housewives in order to provide them with an income.
We have already cooperated with 100 women as an initial
step for our project, and the more the project grows, the
more the number of beneficiaries.
- The large number of cafes there makes Helwan an excellent
resource for our project (cigarette butts and leftovers). We
will cooperate with these cafes and get cigarette waste from
them and reuse them in our project after sterilizing them, so
the air will be cleaner in the area.
- Unemployment can be reduced by making paper (using
cotton produced from cigarettes) and providing job
opportunities for youth by making designs for notebooks
covers
- Air pollution will be reduced in Helwan by reusing cigarette
waste in new products (cotton and paper).

--Helwan has a very large air pollution rate,

and one of the reasons for that is smoking
and the large number of wasted cigarettes
 - The average income of poor housewives
Prosperity is about 1150 pounds per month, which is
not enough for family expenses.
- Some housewives have no income and
there are no job opportunities for them.
- Providing basic income for workers in this project (or
additional income for some of them)‫ز‬
-The return from the project will be enough for them and
achieve prosperity because the paper sold from the project
(notebooks) will be sold for at least 100 EGP per piece
because the product is handmade, which increases its value.

 Highlight the Sustainable Development Goals achieved in the project:

(Highlight the box(es) that corresponds to the SDGs of your project
1 No Poverty 10 Reduce Inequalities
2 Zero Hunger 11 Sustainable cities & Communities
3 Good Health & Well Being 12 Responsible Consumption &
Production
4 Quality Education 13 Climate Change
5 Gender Equality 14 Life Below Water
6 Clean Water & Sanitation 15 Life On a Land
7 Affordable Clean Energy 16 Peace, Justice & Strong
Institutions
8 Decent Work & Economic Growth 17 Partnerships For The Goals
9 Industry, Innovation &
Infrastructure

4. HIGH LEVEL PROJECT SCHEDULE:

Key Milestones
(What are the major vital steps of your projects that mark a certain
progress? What is the approximate date of achieving this important step?)

Milestones Target date

Planning for the project 28/2/2022

First time meeting 10/3/20222

Acquiring needed products 15/3/2022

Acquiring needed machines 15/3/2022

First prototype 18/3/2022

Testing the product 26/3/2022

Confirming with cafes for cigarettes waste 4//4/2022

Confirming with beneficiaries 17/4/2022

 Setting up a working place 27/4/2022

Teaching the beneficiaries cigarette waste 27/4/2022

process

5. HIGH LEVEL PROJECT BUDGET:

 Capital (one time cost)

(The machines, places, materials, etc. that you’ll buy or rent only once at the
beginning of your project)

Item Quantity Unite price Amount

Total:

 Expenses
(Transportation, materials, salaries, etc. Each item which will cost you a regular
payment every day, week or month)

Item Quantity Unite price Amount

Total:

 Beneficiary’s Income

(Original income if found, and the estimated income after being empowered
through the project)

Original Income New Income

6. ASSUMPTIONS & CONSTRAINTS:

(Internal issues related to the project)
(What are the anticipated events or circumstances, more likely positive, expected
to occur during your project’s life cycle? What are the constraints or limitations,
more likely negative, imposed on the project, such as cost, schedule, resources,
etc.?)
  Help people getting resources for 3 products from cigarettes wastes
 Helping families to get extra income from wastes that will cost nothing
 Reduce using of wood for making papers by making cotton sheets
 Reduce using resources that used in making mosquito repellent and Insecticide by using
tobacco wastes and cigarettes as an alternative
 Keeping the environment clean from cigarettes wastes
 We may have difficulties in the production process
 Process of collecting raw materials may contain some health risks due to the cigarettes smell
and the microbes around it but by using gloves and masks a big part of the problem is solved

7. RISKS & MITIGATION PLANS: (external issues related to the project)

Risk Mitigation plan

Factories are concerned about the quality of recycled
materials from cigarettes.
It is very difficult to collect cigarette waste.
Obtaining an analysis of the material from the Egyptian
Quality Standards Authority that the material is free of
any harmful substances.
Partnerships with cafes to collect waste for a specific price
per kilogram.

Working on cigarette waste may be very dangerous and
may cause the transmission of diseases to workers or
injuries while separating the components of the waste
with sharp tools.
The material manufactured from cigarettes is of poor
quality for some industries.
Use products to protect workers such as medical gloves,
masks and sterilization materials. Giving safety and
prevention instructions to workers and training them to
safely deal with this type of waste.
We are always looking for multiple and varied uses for
this material to make sure that we use it in the most
appropriate product for it.

It is not easy to market the paper we made from cigarette Focus on partnerships with shops that sell handmade
waste. products and work on improving the quality of paper and
highlighting that it is environmentally friendly and
recycled
(Risks can be of various types such as technical risks, monetary risks and
scheduling-based risks. What are the measures taken to reduce or eliminate the
risks associated with your project?)
8. SUCCESS CRITERIA:

CRITERIA MEASURE

REACH (CUSTOMERSEGMENT) -DIRECTLY :

DIRECTLY: INDIVIDUALS THE TEAM (ESTIMATED NO. OF BENEFICIARIES

WORKED WITH DIRECTLY. SKILLS AND EMPOWERED BY THE PROJECT)
KNOWLEDGE LEARNED IS IMPLEMENTED
IN THEIR LIVES. REQUIRES TEAM TO
FOLLOW -UP WITH TARGET AUDIENCE.
-INDIRECTLY :
INDIRECTLY: INDIVIDUALS WHO
(ESTIMATED NO. OF PEOPLE BENEFITED
INTERACT AND BENEFITED FROM THE
FROM THE PROJECT)
PROJECT BUT THE TEAM DIDN’T WORK
DIRECTLY WITH THEM.

PROFITABILITY -

EXPLAIN BY ESTIMATED NUMBERS HOW -

WILL YOUR PROJECT GAIN PROFIT.
WHAT ARE YOUR PROJECT’S REVENUE -
STREAMS?

SUSTAINABILITY -

HOW THE PROJECT WILL EVOLVE

AND SUSTAIN OVER TIME?
DEMONSTRATE BY ACTUAL STEPS.

W HAT IS YOUR EXPANSION &

GROWTH PLAN FOR IT?

9. Team Charter (Roles & Responsibilities):

(As an Enactus team, how will you apply the aspect of Entrepreneurial
Leadership? How will you distribute the project’s assignments and
tasks over the responsible team?)
No. of members working on the -
project:

Their assignments: