| Abstract |
Sarawak has a lot of city view-rivers that can attract visitors and bring
attentions to the town. Beautification of the riversides and maintaining the
cleanliness are vital that require serious attention. However, uncontrolled oil
waste dumping from oil facilities and automobile leakage has already harmed
many rivers. We neglect our rivers until they demand attention and the role in
keeping our rivers alive seems to have already been forgotten. Therefore, one
potential solution to this problem is to produce and environmentally-safe
product to absorb oil waste. The proposed product, "Composite Absorbeezz"
is a prototype designed. The characteristic of the prototype is that the
composite material will be wrapped and tied to a floating object. It will be
based on the ability of the composite material to absorb oil waste, while
floating at the surface of the river. The composite material mostly consists of
human hair and a portion of sponge. The portion of sponge in lock of hair can
cause a magnetic couple effect that can highly improvise the absorption
performance. The uniqueness of the prototype is that it can be
commercialized in a small or big market and has a high value to generate
income in the future. By using mostly recycled materials, it is considered as a
low cost and effective product, easy to handle, as a side income to barbers
and provide opportunity to manufacturers to produce a better product using
the proposed prototype. |