Philippine E-Journals

BeeMusa Straw: A Project Feasibility on Utilization of Banana Leaf as Eco-Friendly Straw

Naomie Ella R. Bertes | Kimberly E. Aguila | Tiffany R. Balat | Edwil John D. Libay | Gina M. Mumog | Jessica D. Tamayo

Discipline: materials technology

 

Abstract:

The Philippines is considered to be the third largest contributor to plastic waste worldwide and considered as a long- term problem that sought to resolve over time. The proponents have come up with the idea of making a compostable straw that is made out of bio-plastic with processed banana leaf for their Project Feasibility by putting together their resources and setting up BeeMusa Enterprise. New version of straw is made for the continuous change and improvement on the environmental issues. Introducing this new straw where banana leaf was used as the primary material of BeeMusa straw. The BeeMusa Enterprise created a new Eco-friendly straw that can start to maintain the cleanliness. The product will be sold by pack for P30 consisting of 10 pieces straws. The company will supply the businesses like milk tea shops, restaurant and shake vendor, around the company location in Barangay 171 Bagumbong North Caloocan City. For the 1st year of BeeMusa Enterprise production, 8 workers are needed for the daily capacity of the company. Each pack will be processed 1.59 minutes and can produced 212 packs a day to meet the supply each business needed. All materials for this product are organic from the primary materials which are the beeswax and processed banana leaf up to secondary materials which includes glycerin, starch and vinegar and no preservatives included. It is to avoid the chemicals to our product making it zero plastic content but this is not edible and it will decompose naturally in our composed bin.