BRICK: Building a Renewable Lightweight Bricks Incorporated with Kokonut Husks and Cigarette Butts as a Subterfuge to Smear.
Magandang araw mga Ka-Research!
The last group of researcher of Grade 12 STEM Sapphire featuring their innovation of the common brick.
Finding a problem and finding its solution. A process of investigation and discovery is done by the researchers to find a solution to a problem. This research study aims to help lessen cigarette butt pollution and the waste of coconut husk by utilizing it in renewable bricks and its potential for new innovation. This brick is lightweight compared to the normal standard brick. The bricks incorporated with cigarette butts and coconut husks are a great industrial product that is currently being developed by the researchers as a renewable, advanced, eco-friendly, and innovative product idea for a better tomorrow.
The cigarette butts are trash thrown on the streets that is barely noticeable by people. Each year, the Philippines has an increasing rate of cigarette litter in every corner of the country, particularly in those places where an increase in Filipino smokers occurs. Out of the 5 billion cigarettes produced, 4 billion are being thrown to the street and are recorded as the most littered in the world. In order to search for solutions with regards to this kind of problem, this research is essential.
All parts of the coconut tree are useful, and one of these is the coconut husk, which will provide the coconut coir and peat. Coconut fibers have been proven by many researchers to have substantial purposes that will serve as the product's fiber (coir) and substitute for sand (peat). The coconut husk, which has many purposes, will serve another one as a component of a lightweight brick. The brick is not only useful for construction purposes but also good for the environment.
This brick is not just eco-friendly but also cost-effective since the added components are waste and recycled materials. The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze the effectiveness of cigarette butt and coconut husk bricks in subduing the problem. This research study aims to reduce cigarette butt pollution and coconut waste and provide it with another purpose.
The Grade 12 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) subject—Practical Research—brought these students to nurture their learning by innovating ideas. The minds behind this research are the leader, Phoemela Irish G. Las Piñas (@laspinas), and the members, Alyssa Marjorie M. Mendoza (@alymndz), Kassandra A. Garcia, Kelly Christopher A. Calangi (@kellyclngi), Abygail Q. Cepillo (@galye), Angel Sheen B. Dipasupil (@angelsheen), Alan Jhossef C. Manalo (@jhossef), Johram Vaughn M. Maramot (@johrammaramot), and Christine Joy A. Napa (@napaniaoeks).
