Paper Cups Treatment At

An Najah National University

Prepared By:Laith Arar

Nedal Marie

Rasheed Rasheed

Submitted To: Dr. Ola Sawalha

2013

Why did we select this topic?

The daily waste is specific and in limited types

which makes the separation process very easy.

The sufficient awareness among students for the

importance of solid waste management.

The university society is relatively a large society

so the amount of waste is relatively large.

Survey:

A sample of 50 students were subjected to a

survey of only two questions:

Do you encourage the process of waste

separation and treatment?

72 % said yes, 18 % said they don’t care, and

10% said no.

Will you always drop the waste in the

designated place?

86 % said yes, and 14% said not always.

What categories of waste do we have?

Hot drinks paper cups.

Sandwich packaging paper.

Cola tin cans.

Soft drink plastic bottle.

Nylon bags.

Other waste with small quantities.

What amount of waste do we have?

8000 of hot drinks paper cups daily (4 Tons

per yr).

20 kg of sandwiches packaging papers (4.5

Ton per yr).

1700 of cola cans daily (5.2 Tons per yr).

1500 of plastic bottles daily (6.6 Tons per yr).

18 kg of nylon bags daily (3.9 Tons per yr).

Waste paper cup management

Because of the statistics we chose to deal

paper cups in our project.

Our project is a modern “waste paper cup

management” , by a mostly computerized

processes.

Waste cup management system

Collecting

“Smart container”Separation

Waste coffee and tea

Caffeine extraction

Waste water to nearest local water treatment station

Waste paper cup

recycle

reuse

Energy generation

“burn”

Waste treatment:We end up with empty paper cups, and for that we

have 3 options:

1. Reuse of paper cups.

2. Recycle.

3. Regenerate.

Reuse:After being washed the paper cups can now be

reused for the same purpose after being treated

with polyethylene inside the cups, and sterilized.

Recycle:

The cups are mainly made of carton, they can

be sent to carton manufacturers to be used as

raw material for the production of different kinds

of carton by simple procedures.

Regenerate:We have 4 tons of paper cups per year produced, another way

of taking advantage of that much cups is to use them to

generate power, that is by burning them in a furnace along with

the sandwich wrapping papers (4.5 Tons) to produce heat of by

the use of steam generators generate electricity because the

heat value of this waste is considered to be in good amount.

Recommendations:We highly recommend that special recycle bins to be put

all around to campus to collect this waste of all kinds, the

glass can be sold to glass factories, plastic bottles can be

sold as well, also cola cans can be used by tin factories

and finally the paper cups and sandwich wrapping papers

can be used for many purposes including heat

generations. A treatment facility at ANU should be

established to help collect and distribute the waste to

accomplish maximum profit of the waste management.