ChaCO-Ban: the revolutionary of eco-charcoal utilising kitchen food waste

The heavy reliance of traditional charcoal is worrying as this will continuously cut down the mangrove trees for its production. Major mangrove deforestation had affected not only the environment but also the socio-economic of the local community. To date, there have been several attempts to produce eco-friendlier charcoal (biochar). These studies had amplified from producing biochar for combustion into many other functions such as soil nutrients, carbon dioxide removal, catalysts and others. The aims of this study are to produce a biochar from the biomass domestic kitchen food waste (banana peel and orange peel) with minimal cost. Previous biochar production needed to use pyrolysis but this study used a domestic oven in order for the public to replicate this at home. This will not only be reducing the food waste in the landfill but also minimise the cost for charcoal production. To sum up, this study gave an early conclusion that biochar can substitute traditional charcoal for combustion and more studies needed to verify the usage of biochar for other purposes.