Done by Scientists group from Al-Eiman school. Under the supervision of Al-Bairaq

1. AL-Bairaq
I am Discovering Materials
Biodegradable Materials
SCHOOL NAME :-
Group Name :-
MARYAM ELKHOULY FATIMA AL-SHIRAWI
AL-JAWHARA AL-HAJAJI

2. Outline
• Introduction
• Activities summary
• Product Idea:
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgment

3.  What make materials
biodegradable?
 The definition of biodegradable
is simple: It means an item that
can break down into natural
materials in the environment
without causing harm.
 For example, when a substance
biodegrades into carbon
dioxide, water, and other
naturally occurring minerals

4. Activities
Comparing packing
materials
Processing biodegradable materials
and comparing their mechanical
properties
Measuring the degradation rate of
biodegradable materials
Designing a medicine delivery device

5. Project Idea
 Introduction
 Each year six million tons of single use plastic utensils are
disposed .
 These plastic utensils can take hundreds of year to degrade in
the overly filled landfills .
 The negative effect to this huge amounts is catastrophic to the
environment .
 Aim of the work
 To make single use utensils from biodegradable materials
instead of plastic to protect the environment from waste
and pollution .

6. Hypothesis
We expect that our product will
provide a better substitute to plastic
utensils and a much environmentally
friendly product
Its expected that the product will
degrade in less than one year

7. Materials
The utensils are made of shrimp shells,
starch, gelatin and recycled paper

8. Methods

9. Results
The combination of materials previously
stated give the following characteristics of
the product
1- Strong
2- Moldable
3- Lightweight
4- Biodegradable
5- Cheap

10. Benefits
 Plastic production will be reduced .
 Since plastic is a polymer manufactured from
oil, less damage will happed to the
environment especially less production
harmful gases .
 The product will benefit the soil since it will
degrade to CO2 and water which plants can be
used .

11. Recommendations
Its recommend to replace plastic
cutlery with our invention because
we use waste and biodegradable
materials instead

12. Conclusions
 This experience has taught us a lot
about new topics in science and
environment.
 We learned through making exciting
experiments about biodegradable
materials.
 We hope that our product benefits Qatar
and internationally and used by many
people to replace regular plastic.

13. Acknowledgment
Many thanks to my teachers, school and AL-Bairaq team from
Center for Advanced Materials (CAM), Qatar University
for supporting us during our journey with a AL-Bairaq.
Also, I would like to thank Al-Bairaq partners UNESCO and
Qatar National Commission.