Product Design And Development Of Organic Waste Composter

Mat Amin, Nur Amirah (2018) Product Design And Development Of Organic Waste Composter. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Food wastes are being thrown straight away together with the other trashes and are not being sorted. This causes greenhouse emissions, takes up landfills, causes land toxicity and consumes a lot of money for waste management. Composting wastes is one of the way to reduce the food wastes thrown to the landfills but this method is very complicated to do, consumes time and many more factors. Not many prefer to compost and due to this, wastes, especially food wastes are piling up day by day at the landfills. This project entitled Product Design and Development of Organic Waste Composter is focusing on reducing wastes by developing a prototype that simplify composting technique through method of literature review, product design and development steps, fabrication of the prototype and testing between conventional composting method and the semi-automatic organic waste composter. The objective of this project is to design an organic waste composter for home, to develop a functional prototype of waste composter for home and to compare the best method between conventional composting method and semi-automatic waste composter for home in producing fertilizers. The result for this research showed that The Organic Waste Composter not only faster compared to conventional composting technique but also saves money compared to store bought organic fertilizers. Most Malaysians are really interested to help in taking part to reduce waste and resolves environmental problems according to survey and interviews conducted. The only restriction is that we are lack of technology that can ease the process towards a sustainable waste management.

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