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Engineers in Papua New Guinea have developed a process to turn waste betel nut fibers into useful mattresses. [1] The fibers are collected from markets and streets where they are commonly discarded as waste. [2] The fibers are then washed, dried, and separated from their outer coverings. [3] The cleaned fibers are woven together and coated with chemicals to prevent rotting. [4] The woven fibers are layered and tied together to form a rectangular mattress shape. [5] By turning waste into a useful product, this process helps reduce environmental waste while providing local mattresses to benefit the economy.

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Engineers in Papua New Guinea have developed a process to turn waste betel nut fibers into useful mattresses. [1] The fibers are collected from markets and streets where they are commonly discarded as waste. [2] The fibers are then washed, dried, and separated from their outer coverings. [3] The cleaned fibers are woven together and coated with chemicals to prevent rotting. [4] The woven fibers are layered and tied together to form a rectangular mattress shape. [5] By turning waste into a useful product, this process helps reduce environmental waste while providing local mattresses to benefit the economy.

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ENGINEERING WASTE MATERIALS INTO USEFUL PRODUCT: MAKING MATRESS FROM THE WASTE

BETULNUT FIBERS

THE PAPUA NEW GUINEA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY Basic pictorial information


DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

Introduction

Betelnut fiber is a fiber that is taken from the nut by unveiling


its skin. This fiber is seen everywhere around our societies
as a waste where it is making the environment look untidy. Fig.1.Harvest & selling nut Fig.2. Collection of nut skin
However, we as being an engineers should not go to the
perspective of ordinary people by saying its truly waste but
could say it can be made into useful products like this poster
will explain one of its importance. Thus, this poster in its
limit, we will stress one idea on how to solve this problem
encountered by societies and how it can be useful to the
people. This could be done by making mattress from those
waste betel nut fibers. Fig.3. Separate fiber from skin Fig.4. Ready to use as Mattress
OBJECTIVES DISCUSSION CONCLUSION
Some of the aim for this project is to: Mattress can be made from betelnut Mattress can be made as shown
fibers. It was researched and seen above with fibers. It can be seen
 Make mattress from the waste fibers
that more fibers were being
 To reduce the untidy environment in the society from above that, the more we
collected from the waste betel nut
 To improvise, make use of resource that is available skin at markets and roads. When
make waste materials into useful
required amount were collected, products, we will live in a society
Methodology:
these waste were being washed and with clean environment and
1. Collect waste betelnut skin from the market, streets, dried for some days. When all the people will use products from
and roads. fibers were being dried thoroughly, their own country made as
2. Wash them thoroughly the outer coverings were removed exemplified above. Also, when
3. Dry them in the sun and only fibers being collected and country make products from its
4. Remove the outer coverings and get the typical fibres pulled and stretched as shown in own resources, it will boost and
5. Dip or spray them with chemicals like varnish and fig.3. Then these fibers have been elevate economy of the country
wrapped or tightened together by
others to abstain from fibers being rotten because the money is being
strong ropes and the process
6. Then use needle and thread to help put the holes so circulate within the country.
continued until it gave the desired
that ropes or strong wires can go through it. Thus, make use of whatever
shape and size as shown in fig.4.
7. Put it in a suitable area and make crisscross with the Eventually, it was covered with bed resources we have in the society.
ropes that are attached with fibers andit will take coverings and has been used as REMARKS
several layers until you get rectangular shape like mattress.
mattress itself. Since fiber from the betel nut skin is
Thus, betel nut waste fibers can be
8. You can put the bedcoverings and here gives your good to make mattress, elevate and
useful to make mattress and this is
matress to sleep on it. boost economy of the country,
what it should be done.
people should make use of this waste
material and also it will give tidy
environment and government should
make more emphasis on it..
REFERENCES. 1. Dr. Betasolo class notes, first semester, 2017.
2. Retrieved from; https: //www.google.com/search= betel nuts

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