How to Process Organic Waste to Be Useful

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This is how Itera lecturers process organic waste to make it useful
This is how Itera lecturers process organic waste to make it useful

One effort that can be made to preserve the earth is to process organic waste properly. Even though the trademark Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, or what is usually called 3R, has been repeated for a long time, not all levels of society can apply it.

In order to broaden the public's insight into processing organic waste, lecturers in the Biosystems Engineering study program at the Sumatra Institute of Technology (It causes) is training farmers in Negeri Sakti Village, Pesawaran, Lampung, in Bio-Mol products (local microorganisms). Bio-Mol products can be used as a starter in the production of solid or liquid organic fertilizer.

Apart from that, Bio-Mol can also be used to neutralize unpleasant odors from cow pens in the Mulia Farm livestock complex in the village.

In this training, the public is given education about the expositions of making Bio-Mol, its benefits and product contents.

The six Itera lecturers involved in this activity were Zunanik Mufidah, Raizummi Fil'aini, Budi Priyonggo, Alvin Fatikhunada, Dwi Cahyani, and Wayan Arya Utari. Itera Biosystems Engineering and Chemical Engineering students also took part in this activity.

Benefits of Organic Waste

PKM Chairman Zunanik Mufidah said that through this training farmers will be able to utilize organic waste by processing organic waste rubbish organic and household waste as products that have many benefits including:

  1. As soil and plant fertilizer
  2. As a starter in making drums. EM4 replacement fertilizer
  3. Eliminates livestock manure odor
  4. Use as a botanical pesticide.

Zunanik said that this training was also an effort to provide insight to the community about how to process organic waste into products that have good uses and can apply the zero waste principle.

"We hope that this training can be delivered in a sustainable manner and that farmers and local communities can process organic waste into useful products in an integrated agricultural cycle," said Zunanik.

Simple Creation

Zunanik Mufidah and Raizummi Fil'aini explained that several materials used in the process of making Bio-Mol products include vegetable or fruit waste and rice washing water.

Compositions processes organic waste and makes it very simple by using household equipment such as coal and leftover cans or bottles of drinks.

Residents also receive training on how to use Bio-Mol products as liquid fertilizer that they can make themselves. Farmers are also supported in practicing what they have been trained to do in their respective homes.

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Hi, let me introduce myself, Lutfi Hulasoh, I am a writer and techno blogger. I started creating a personal blog writing informative articles about the latest trends and developments in technology. My writing covers a wide range of topics, from mobile applications to artificial intelligence, and I can also provide easy-to-understand explanations to help readers understand complex concepts.