MJSC TUN

ABDUL RAZAK,
PEKAN,
MALAYSIA
2014

Robot STOP GLOBAL

WARMING

BY:
MUHAMMAD ALIF BIN MOHD
FAIZAL
(980903-10-7455)
JAYMOND RAJVARMA A/L
KANTHY RAJAN
(980921-08-6897)

CREATIVITY CATEGORY

- Robot : Stop Global Warming

- Food Waste Management: An insight
towards zero landfill & sustainability
of recycling food waste to compost.-

R3C3 Compost Robot

MUHAMMAD ALIF BIN MOHD FAIZAL
(980903-10-7455)
JAYMOND RAJVARMA A/L KANTHY RAJAN
(980921-08-6897)
This report is submitted in partial fulfilment of requirement for the
Creative Category, MRSM Robofair 2014.

MRSM TUN ABDUL RAZAK

PEKAN, PAHANG
MALAYSIA

2014

I hereby declare that I have read this report and in my

opinion this project is sufficient in terms of scope and quality for the
MRSM ROBOFAIR 2014
CREATIVITY CATEGORY

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TN. HJ. MOHD YUSOFF BIN HASSAN
Pengetua
Maktab Rendah Sains MARA
Tun Abdul Razak Pekan
Pahang.

DEDICATION

Specially dedicated
To our parents, families, brothers and sisters, teachers and friends who had given us the
guidance, inspiration and support in our journey of learning.

Thanks for everything.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We would like to express our gratitude to Allah S.W.T for giving us the strength,
knowledge and opportunity to complete this project entitled ROBOT : STOP GLOBAL
WARMING. This report is prepared to fulfil part of the requirement in completing
CREATIVITY CATEGORY - MRSM ROBOFAIR 2014.
Our heartily gratitude and appreciation to our beloved principal Tuan Haji Mohd Yusoff
bin Hassan who has been our mentor, guiding us through with enthusiasm and encouragement.
His continuous advice and constructive comments during this project were much appreciated.
Our special honour and appreciation to our teacher Encik Ismadey Ismail who has been
supervisor, guiding us with motivation, advices and ideas
Our appreciation also goes to our beloved family, teacher and friends for their
encouragement, love, patience and support to us all these years.
Nevertheless, our appreciation is also dedicated to all who shared their opinions,
knowledge, assistance and experience directly or indirectly towards the accomplishment of this
project.
Thank you.

ABSTRACT
As modernization and development continues to take place all around the world, waste
management is becoming the major global environmental problem thus accelerating the toxic

gases into the atmosphere.

Over the past decade, generation of municipal solid waste (MSW)
has increased more than 91% [1]. The rapid increase in the density of human population is the
main caused for the MSW increased. High population growth rate and increased in economic
activities in the urban areas of developing countries with a lacking of training in modern solid
waste management practices complicates any efforts to improve the solid waste management
services in almost all municipal council.
Over the decade, landfilling is the most preferred
method of MSW disposal and this method is not sustainable and has created a major
environmental crisis GLOBAL WARMING. Currently suitable disposal sites are becoming
difficult to obtain and existing ones are almost exhausted.
Overall, SWM in Malaysia is in
infant stage with many challenges from the beginning of waste collection to the disposal waste.
This project is to propose a new solid waste management (SWM) using autonomous
composting robot from collection stage to disposal stage which emphasis on 3R (Reduce, Reuse,
Recycle) of food waste and also adopting a 3C concept (Collect, Compost, Crop Sustainability).
The prototype robot has a compost turner which immediately starts the composting process upon
collecting the food waste from household, restaurants, hotels or any food production industries.
Therefore landfill management will be improved and working towards a zero landfill is possible.
With the reduction of food waste in garbage or landfill, the global methane emissions can be
reduced. Globally 60% the total methane emissions come from human activities [2]. These
landfill gases are produced when the bacteria breaks down organic waste in the absence of
oxygen [2].
Food waste and organic matters need to be reuse and well managed in order to
reduce the methane emissions due daily human lifestyle and activities. Therefore, the
combination of R3C3 and its composting autonomous compost bin in this project help and
accelerate the process period to compost food waste and organic matters so it can be reuse and
produce renewable energy (a good source of nitrogen and carbon) for crop/urban farming. The
garbage collection robot has a new twist compared to the existing traditional garbage trucks.
R3C3-Bot is autonomous and can be remotely controlled by an operator
Keywords: Municipal solid waste (MSW), MSW management, 3R (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle),
waste to energy, renewable energy.

1.
2.

Muhaimin Samsudin, Mohd Dinie, & Mat Don, Mashitah (2013). Municipal Solid
Waste Management in Malaysia : Current Practices, Challenges and Prospect
[Abstract]. 1-7. Jurnal Teknologi in UTM Press.
EPA (2010). Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Natural Sources . U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, USA.

TABLE OF CONTENT
CHAPTER

TITLE
Our dedication

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Acknowledgement
Abstract
Abstrak
Table of content
CHAPTER 1

Introduction
1.1 What is global warming?

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

1.2 What causes global warming?

1.3 Effects from global warming

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Introduction of the project

2.1 Paretos Principal
2.2 Project Summary
2.3 Gantt chart

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Problem Statement
3.1 Problem statement

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3.1.1
3.1.2
3.1.3
3.1.4
3.1.5
3.1.6
CHAPTER 4
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CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

Identify and list problems of landfills

Identify the root cause of each problem
Score problem
Group problem together by root cause
Add up scores for each group
Take action-R3C3

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Literature Review
4.1 Literature review
Objective / Mission statement and objectives
5.1 Project mission
5.2 List of objectives / tasks
5.3 Brief explanation of the objectives
5.4 Overview of project flow
5.5 Robot testing and observation chart
5.6 Composting table and observation chart

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Design rationale, development and testing

6.1 Design work and rationale
6.2 Overview of system model
6.3 Sketch of robot design and development

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TITLE

CHAPTER 7

Discussion of results
7.1 Discussion of experiment final results for compost
7.2 Discussion of experiment final results for R3C3 robot
7.3 Project and experiment fulfilled or otherwise?

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Conclusions, lessons learned and suggestions

8.1 Brief discussion on the overall project development
8.2 Brief discussion on lessons learned
8.3 List of suggestions and future developments

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CHAPTER 8

APPENDIX:
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF FLOW-CHARTS
SKETCHES

REFERENCES

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