BOP Invention There are many people in the world today who fall in the bottom of the pyramid. The bottom of the pyramid refers to people who we today consider them as “poor people.” About 2.6 billion people don’t have access to sanitation. About 2.5 billion live on $2.50 per day. What would you buy from an income of $2.50 per day? If I lived on an income with only $2.50, I have no idea what I would buy with that because in today’s economy, that amount of money is nothing. I’ve been thinking a lot on how I can help these people who are considered at the bottom of the pyramid. If we as humans come together and put our ideas together to help not just the bottom of the pyramid, but to help our children future to make the world a better place. The simplest thing can make a tremendous effect on these people. Sanitation, clean water, food, air conditioner, and electricity are just the few resources that 2.5 billion people don’t have today. After doing some research, I realized that NASA uses a food packaging system to transport and preserve food while in space. What they basically use us a commercial material which vacuums the re-hydratable foods, ones that are dry. They also vacuum package beverages as well including water. The foods are thermo-stabilized and they remove as much head space from their packages as they can (NASA). This might not be perfect, but it is a step in helping current astronauts to survive in space.
Therefore, why don’t we use this idea and expand it more to help poor people preserve food because of they don’t have refrigerators or other resources. Keeping this in mind, many restaurants produce thousands and thousands of food during the day to serve their customers. At the end of the night, there are always leftovers. Managers usually throw away leftover materials because no one wants it. So why not come up with a system to save the leftover food restaurants throw away every day. I was thinking if every restaurant had this poly material bag that NASA uses for their astronauts handy in their restaurant, they can put the food in the bag to keep it safe and preserved for starving people all around the world. Restaurants can have a donate box by their register until they can afford this bag. So once they put the food in the bag, there should be system where a truck comes by restaurants to pick the bag up and transport it to starving countries. Why should we waste food by throwing it away when so many people around us don’t have a decent meal before they sleep at night? People on the bottom of the pyramid will eat anything to survive.
Business and Corporations are spending thousands and thousands of money on donating products and services for unfortunate people all around the world. Why not spend this money on a group of people who can invent a bag to keep food preserved for months and help donate this bag to restaurants. If every restaurant had a bag like this, it can save millions of people’s life because of malnutrition they are getting. Looking online what poly bags can do, it is said it can keep goods safe from harm in more abusive environments where dirt, dust, moisture, movement, etc. are factors that damage goods (Material).
To conclude, we should use the idea of poly material bags that NASA uses to preserve food for astronauts and expand that concept to help people that fall into the range of the bottom of the pyramid. Restaurants should have access to these bags and put leftover foods in it instead of throwing it away. Therefore, a system should be created for these poly bags to be transported to help the people on the bottom of the pyramid to reduce starvation.

Work Cited
Material Concept. Material Concept Inc. , n.d. Web. 16 Apr. 2012. <http://www.materialconcepts.com/products/poly-bags/>.