Two high school students from
Indonesia have created an air freshener from cow
dung.
Orange News reported
that students Dwi Nailul Izzah and Rintya Aprianti Miki made the
environmentally-friendly fragrance from fresh cow
manure.
It is said to
have a “natural fragrance” of herbs and is “good for human health”
because it does not contain any harmful chemicals found in other
aerosol products in the market.
To create the
freshener, the girls collected fresh dung from a cattle farm and
left it to ferment over three days.
Next, they
extracted the water from the dung and mixed it with coconut
water—after which, the mixture was distilled to remove
impurities.
The end product was
an air freshener with a “natural aroma of herbs from digested cow
food”.
Meanwhile, Dwi Nailul Izzah claimed his scientific work was
explained about waste droppings (feces) into liquid cow pengharuman
room with natural fragrance of herbs. "Fragrances
room that we produce pure natural smelling like cow feed plant, not
supplemented with chemicals in order to smell fragrant," he
said.
In his work, the two students were also made economic studies
regarding market air freshener products
are. "This
room fragrances healthy because it contains no harmful chemicals,
such as" benzo acetan "products like fragrances on the market, and
also economical because the cost of production is very low, at $ 21
thousand to 225 milliliters packaging," he said.
Meanwhile, for air freshener products on the market price of Rp
39,900 for a 275 gram pack.Therefore,
it will be filed for a patent on the work, as appropriate the work
of two students at the site Director of Intellectual Property
Rights (IPR) has been no similar product patents.
While Regent Lamongan Fadeli expect scientific papers both students
are not lost in the earth. In
the future there should be implementation efforts by collaborating
third parties for marketing."The
opportunities in the international arena they also open enough to
see the results are pretty good, and so potentially could win on
the international stage.
Meanwhile, Dwi Nailul Izzah was born student shoots, Lamongan,
December 14, 1996, and is the second child of two brothers pair
Haris A Salim and Zayyaroh. While
Rintya Aprianti Miki was born in Edinburgh on 17 April 1996 which
is the first daughter of three brothers pair Maliki and
Juwami.
ccording to the Head of Public Relations Mohammed Zamroni Lamongan
regency, two students representing Indonesia after conducting
scientific research titled "Livestock Cow Waste" as environmentally
friendly air freshener. The
scientific work was defeated 1,000 participants in the event
"Indonesian Science Project Olympiad" (ISPO) held in Jakarta on
26-28 February 2013. "Success
is to bring them into the representative of Indonesia in the
international arena which will take place in Turkey.
