Garbage smells! No more with odourepel / Nemisha Suppiah ... [et al.]

Suppiah, Nemisha and Kunalan, Sonisha and Kumar, Kaarthikhesan Suria and Mohan, Veran and Anendan, Thenesha (2020) Garbage smells! No more with odourepel / Nemisha Suppiah ... [et al.]. In: The 9th International Innovation, Invention and Design Competition 2020, 17 May-10 Oct 2020, Perak, Malaysia.

Abstract

In general, the negative image of garbage comes from the fact often smells when microorganisms grow on food waste. It contains decaying, putrescible materials such as meat or vegetables or diapers. As meat decays, it attracts bacteria that feast on the amino acids in the meat's proteins. Vegetable’s rot and slowly liquefy as microbes attack the vegetables' cell structure and the fermenting liquids warm up the garbage bag. The odours from the decomposition process are a variety of goodies with nasty sounding names. After all, who wants to invite “cadaverine” or “putrescine” over for dinner? Although these smells are obnoxious, they do not pose a health threat. However, the rats and flies attracted by rotting garbage do. These “vectors” spread diseases that can be serious to humans if they get into our food supplies. The object of this invention is to treat the garbage by absorbing the discharged fluid and to repel the bad odour. The use of waste materials such as coco peat, corn cob and coffee ground in the muslin cloth pack is invented for this purpose. This ODOURepel had received good feedback from the household residents. They feel relief from the bad odour of their garbage. This product is aligned with the green technology, where it is potentially important concept which plays a role to achieve the global sustainable development.

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Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Creators:
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Suppiah, Nemisha
nemishasuppiah@gmail.com
Kunalan, Sonisha
UNSPECIFIED
Kumar, Kaarthikhesan Suria
UNSPECIFIED
Mohan, Veran
UNSPECIFIED
Anendan, Thenesha
UNSPECIFIED
Subjects: Q Science > QD Chemistry > Organic chemistry
Q Science > QR Microbiology > Bacteria
T Technology > T Technology (General) > Technological change > Technological innovations
Divisions: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Perak
Journal or Publication Title: International Innovation, Invention and Design Competition 2020
Event Title: The 9th International Innovation, Invention and Design Competition 2020
Event Dates: 17 May-10 Oct 2020
Page Range: pp. 327-329
Keywords: Green technology, invention, odour, waste materials, sustainable
Date: 2020
URI: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/69230
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