Philippine E-Journals

Design and Fabrication of Portable Garbage Collector in Brgy. Palingon, Calamba City, Laguna

Sev Andro D. Valderama | Mark Nathaniel P. Nabatilan | Jetro M. Salaysay

 

Abstract:

This study aimed to design an eco-friendly portable water waste collector. It would preserve marine life and help eliminate garbage present in open waters. The system acts like a whirlpool to engulf floating litter in different bodies of water, and the filter would hold and store the engulfed waste. Once the submersible pump of the system sips water waste with greater pressure creating the whirlpool effect, the filter would start holding and storing waste, and then the pump would discharge the held water free of waste back. A fine mesh filter was used for oil spill solutions and netted filter was used just for filtering solid trash. The water waste collector was designed to work independently and not rely on regular household power source. It would use batteries as power sources and solar panels. In designing the proposed water waste collector, data were gathered through online journals. The journals contained information about pumps, renewable energy, charge controllers, solar panels and methods of collecting garbage from water. Data were gathered through books, available at the school’s library. With all these data gathered, the machine is expected to work efficiently.