Organic waste pillow / Sashenee Sivakumar, Heshan Sukamaran and Rineswar Pooncholai

• Main Authors: Sivakumar, Sashenee, Sukamaran, Heshan, Pooncholai, Rineswar
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Biotechnology; Textile decoration. Textile painting
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/69071/2/69071.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/69071/

Sleeping disorder is a major health impact for Malaysian. We have seen a number of working adults, students and senior citizen having sleeping disorder. A recent study showed that 9 out of 10 Malaysians are suffer from sleeping problems. The five most common sleep disorders are Insomnia, Sleep Apnea, Narcolepsy, Restless Legs Syndrome and Sleep Behavior Disorder. Therefore, to address this sleeping disorder, we (HSR SQUAD) has come up with an innovation idea to design a pillow by using organic wastes such as palm oil husk, corncob and banana trunk which will form a solid pillow as per other pillows in the market. We HSR SQUAD have chosen organic waste as our materials to design our pillow. The materials that used for organic waste pillow are palm oil husk, corncob, banana trunk, activated carbon and garlic skin. The main objective of this innovation is to utilize organic waste and produce an useful product. Therefore, HSR squad had collected the mentioned organic wastes, drying it and arranged in 7 layers to form organic waste pillow. The selection of organic waste in line with our government effort to move from disposal to 4R (Reduce, Reuse, Recover and Recycle) for waste management. Moreover, a mechanical test has been carried out at accredited laboratory to determine the strength. HSQ squad believe that the utilization of organic waste into pillow will minimize the major environmental issues like global warming, ozone layer depletion and deforestation.