■Team nameTeam Name: 3W1M
Institute : Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Malaysia – Japan International Institute of Technology)
Team members :1) Mafuzah Binti Mazela
2) Shairatul Akma binti Roslan
3) Muhammad Mahfuz bin Salehhon
4) Nur Sri Dewi binti Md Hisham■Team Introduction
All team members are responsible for handling all tasks assigned by the team leader and working
synergistically with other team members. Every team member has their own expertise and knowledge interms of science and technology.

■What goal do you want to achieve
Supporting gender equality (SDG5), propose a better method for women’s waste management which may
provide more employment opportunities (R&D) and better sanitation product availability without theimplementation of the pink tax. Therefore we aim:
1.

Produce reusable women's cosmetics products such as makeup and skincare containers, andfast-fashion from biodegradable products.
2. Propose and improvise a new or available disposal method for women’s menstruation waste.

■How will you achieve the goal
Likewise, if we are to compare the buying power between genders, the female would have theupper hand as most of the items sold in the world are in favor of the more feminine side. In fact, a lot ofcompanies nowadays focus on producing more cosmetics, women accessories and women's fashion. Also,
it is known to the world that women require menstruation necessities every month. However, not many
people care about the waste they create and how it a�ects the environment.
Cosmetics are deﬁned by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as substances applied to thehuman body for cleaning, beautiﬁcation, boosting beauty, or altering the look without changing thebody's structure or functions. This includes toothpaste as well as colognes, moisturizers, nail polish,cosmetics, and hair products. The cosmetics business produces more than 120 billion packaging units
yearly, the majority of which is not recyclable. The bulk of cosmetic products are packaged in plastic,
which can take almost 1,000 years to degrade in the case of the typical moisturizer pot. Then there are theplastic packaging, paper inserts, cardboard sleeves, foam, mirrored glass, and other materials, which areoccasionally all included in a single purchase.
Besides, the fast fashion market was valued at $35.8 billion, according to statistics from thefashion industry. Every sector will be shaken in 2020, and we all know why. Fast fashion is expected to be
worth $31.4 billion in 2020, having a negative CAGR of -12 percent. Fast fashion is anticipated to climb to163.4 billion dollars with a constant growth rate of 19% over the following ﬁve years, and then reach 211.9billion dollars (188.8 billion euros) in 2030, with a ﬁve-year average annual growth rate of 5.3 percent. 80billion new articles of clothes are purchased annually around the world, amounting to a $1.2 trillion
business. Despite being the world's largest consumer of apparel and textiles, the majority of theseproducts are made in China and Bangladesh. Nearly 3.8 billion pounds of the clothing that Americans
consume each year, or about 85% of the total, are dumped in landﬁlls as solid trash, or about 80 pounds
per person annually.
Next, the age for one sanitary pad may last up to 500-800 years before degrading upon burial.
However, absorbent gels, which react poorly to hot temperatures are used to layer sanitary pads. You mustburn the entire package of sanitary pads because you cannot separate these gels before burning. When you
do this, the gel may release some hazardous substances into the air, which adds to the myriad problems
our ecosystem faces.
In order to achieve our ﬁrst goal, “Produce women's products such as makeup and skincare
containers, and fast-fashion from non-biodegradable products”. We must overcome the millions ofwaste that had been built up over the years from the constant use of makeup and skincare products. By far,recycling the ones that exist would be the best idea. Then, we would like to propose the idea of producing
cosmetics containers using a biodegradable material with its own personal code that can be scanned. This
code can serve as data information hence allowing cosmetic shops to know the brand and the informationof the product allowing it to be reﬁlled correctly. Suggested to brand owners to put a discount code foreach reﬁll as to attract more people to recycle instead of buying new products. Also, we had the idea of
producing fashion from biodegradable material with their own expiry date. Once the expiry date isreached, the cloth would start to degrade by itself with its own purpose, for instance, a cloth may degrade
to become fertilizer. The degradation of the cloth after the expiry date may take weeks or months
depending on the chemicals used to manufacture it.
The second and ﬁnal goal we would like to achieve, “Propose and improvise a new or available
disposal method for women’s menstruation waste”. Our idea is to reduce the number of years of sanitary
pads degradation from 500 years to approximately 100 years earlier. Due to the lack of data on how themethod of disposal is done, we would like to propose the innovation of applying a natural based product to
aid in the degradation of the pad. Hence, by using the natural-based product it would be easier tosegregate them before burying them.

■What effect is expected after you achieve the goal
Upon achieving the goals, approximately 5 years from now, we expect that at least about 50% from 120billions cosmetics waste are reusable, resulting in the prevention of about 60 billion cosmetics products
becoming waste. Besides, about 20% of the current 1.72 billion kilogram (0.34 billion kilogram) of
clothing are targeted to become biodegradable waste with each’s expiry date. Finally, we aim to produce anew product of sanitary pads that could degrade within 300 years.