Mycelia Bio-P

Waste disposal in Malaysia is not as efficient in terms of the collection time and the degradation method. Increasing population size also has contributed to the increase in plastic waste like food wrappers, drinking straws, plastic bottles, Tetra Pak covers which abundantly found in schools. Hence, MYCELLIA BIO-P is an innovation to address the issue of waste disposal in schools and in landfills in general thus the project aims in shortening the decomposition time of plastic waste in school by applying mycoremediation method. With mycelia of mushroom from Pleurotaceae family as active ingredient, recreated paper pulp serves as a medium to initiate the growth of mycelium, colonising the plastic waste and decomposing them. The result shows that mycelia of Pleurotaceae sp. shows degrading effects on plastic waste possibly due to the enzymatic degradation thus contributing to shortening the rate of decomposition of plastics waste from the original period.