Every year, students compete to win the James Dyson Sustainability Award. The contest has produced remarkable, innovative inventions, from bionic hands to the O-Wind turbine and single-use plastic alternatives. This year, a Filipino engineering student has caught international attention for his ingenious method of turning food waste into eye-catching decorative solar panels. Twenty-seven-year-old Carvey Ehren Maigue was awarded the James Dyson Sustainability Award for using food waste to generate energy from the sun. Maigue is the first-ever Sustainability winner of the James Dyson Award. The award was given for his AuREUS system that turns waste crops into cladding, or layers of one material over another—his colorful solar panels are layered decoratively over the windows of buildings—which generates clean energy from UV light. The invention is truly remarkable, considering regular solar panels cannot collect large amounts of UV light. According to SolarQuotes, traditional solar panels convert visible light into electrical energy …