At least 1 continuous year of bimonthly “volunteer day” events: students and community members volunteer to gather large amounts of excess water hyacinths from the river for conversion into animal feed. An entire day is dedicated to a systematic removal of these plants.

Scaling: establish infrastructure for continuous, less labor-intensive collection of water hyacinths, such as the construction of specific areas with nets and blocked-off sections to catch water hyacinths flowing with the current.

Outreach: demonstrating to government officials the effectiveness and importance of the purposeful removal of an invasive species; this is successful when officials agree to provide resources such as machinery/boats to make the extraction and/or production process more productive.

Involvement: at least 1 continuous year of monthly workshops to teach the community about how to convert water hyacinths into different types of animal feed.

Scaling: expansion to other rivers with a similar problem, such as parts of the Chao Phraya River.

Youth engagement: involving at least a total of 100 young volunteers (on volunteer day, in the planning process, in discussions, in animal feed recipe development, etc.)

Accessibility: designing alternative recipes that are less costly or resource/labor complete with a full cost analysis that is readily available (transparency) for families struggling financially or are unable to do a lot of physical labor to produce the animal feed

Awareness: weekly posts on social media (on activities and information on the issue, eg. interviews with affected fishermen/women) and a professional website