Development of ballot bin to reduce cigarette butts wastage

Baharen, Aizuddin Husaini (2022) Development of ballot bin to reduce cigarette butts wastage. Project Report. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Cigarette butts are the most frequent kind of litter, as an estimated 4.5 trillion worldwide cigarette butts are thrown away. There are many types of chemicals that are involved in making cigarettes including substances that can be harmful to health and can also pollute the environment. Uncontrolled disposal of cigarette butts can cause a serious impact on the environment such as open burning and can also threaten marine life. The main objective of this project is to create alternative cigarette ash containers for the public environment to reduce cigarette butts littering behaviour in effective and efficient. Several proposed prototypes were planned during the research period. Autodesk Inventor, Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software, an online survey questionnaire to obtain feedback from the society on the features and functions of the Ballot Bin, as well as the Arduino system were the methodologies used to make the prototype. To build this prototype, several phases were required to ensure the prototype development process was done smoothly and systematic in order to optimize the time and cost. To ensure that this Ballot Bin has the potential to reduce cigarette butts littered in the public area, social activities were conducted for 4 weeks by placing the Ballot Bin in public area to collect the number of smokers that used Ballot Bin daily for 5 days in a week. At the end of the study, by placing this Ballot Bin, cigarette disposal in public areas was reduced by 47% based on the involvement of the smokers and the weight of collected cigarette buts. After several analysis and discussions regarding the parameters that were determined to achieve the objectives of this device, the invention of the Ballot Bin and social activities held were confirmed as one of the solutions that can contribute to the reduction of cigarette butts wastage.

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