turn trash to treasure
To : Miss Nur Fazleen Binti Badrul Zaman
From : Nur Athirah Binti Mohd Isa
Subject :Turning trash into treasure (organic fertilizer from food waste)
1.0 Background of the project
Most people are familiar with making compost from food wastes that can be done at the backyard. Rotten vegetables, fruits, grass and leaves are common ingredients of compost which is then used for home-gardening purpose. They are mixed together with certain moisture level and turned regularly for air flow to the heap. It can take several weeks or even months before they are considered suitable to be used as fertilizer or soil amendments. This is the kind of method we know that has long been practiced since centuries ago.
Composting was invented to overcome consume of space in landfills beginning in the 1920s in Europe as well as a tool for organic farming. The first industrial station for the transformation of urban organic materials into compost was set up in Wels/Austria in the year 1921.Early frequent citations for propounding composting within farming are for the German-speaking world Rudolf Steiner, founder of a farming method called biodynamics, and Annie Francé-Harrar, who was appointed on behalf of the government in Mexico and supported the country 1950–1958 to set up a large humus organization in the fight against erosion and soil degradation. In the English-speaking world it was Sir Albert Howard who worked extensively in India on sustainable practices and Lady Eve Balfour who was a huge proponent of composting
1.0 The problem statement Food waste is any unused, left over and any consumable food items being discarded and is usually being handled by waste department and/or privately contracted waste management companies and is being hauled away and dumped into landfills. The sources of food waste mainly comes from leftover of our meals, waste ingredients during preparation of cuisine and the rejected products from food manufacturing and
From : Nur Athirah Binti Mohd Isa
Subject :Turning trash into treasure (organic fertilizer from food waste)
1.0 Background of the project
Most people are familiar with making compost from food wastes that can be done at the backyard. Rotten vegetables, fruits, grass and leaves are common ingredients of compost which is then used for home-gardening purpose. They are mixed together with certain moisture level and turned regularly for air flow to the heap. It can take several weeks or even months before they are considered suitable to be used as fertilizer or soil amendments. This is the kind of method we know that has long been practiced since centuries ago.
Composting was invented to overcome consume of space in landfills beginning in the 1920s in Europe as well as a tool for organic farming. The first industrial station for the transformation of urban organic materials into compost was set up in Wels/Austria in the year 1921.Early frequent citations for propounding composting within farming are for the German-speaking world Rudolf Steiner, founder of a farming method called biodynamics, and Annie Francé-Harrar, who was appointed on behalf of the government in Mexico and supported the country 1950–1958 to set up a large humus organization in the fight against erosion and soil degradation. In the English-speaking world it was Sir Albert Howard who worked extensively in India on sustainable practices and Lady Eve Balfour who was a huge proponent of composting
1.0 The problem statement Food waste is any unused, left over and any consumable food items being discarded and is usually being handled by waste department and/or privately contracted waste management companies and is being hauled away and dumped into landfills. The sources of food waste mainly comes from leftover of our meals, waste ingredients during preparation of cuisine and the rejected products from food manufacturing and