Done by Titanium group from Alwakra Independent school for girls, Under the supervision of AL-Bairaq.

5. Should be bio-
degradable
Reasons Shouldn’t be bio-
degradable
Reasons
1. Towels More hygienic 1. Cooking pots If affected by nature
it will go away fast
2. News papers Easy to get rid of 2. Bathroom tools It will not be affected
by bacteria
3. Trash bags We use it too much
and it will be better
for the environment
3. Chairs and
tables
It will be affected by
humidity and will be
spoiled.

7. Items HCl NaOH Water
(H2O)
Foam
peanut
17:15 19:50 1:54
Gelatin
capsule
18:30 20:35 0:45
5% of film 20:01 21:10 0:18
20% of
gelatin
19:12 20:25 0:12

9. -In recent days food poisoning has occurred in high percentages, one main reason is
that consumers and suppliers are not aware of expiry dates of food products.one of
the countries dealing with this is Qatar. That's why we founded a project that
supports environment and Qatari society by making a product that alerts consumers
and suppliers of expiry dates of food products through substances from the topic
“Bio-degradable materials”.
-What attracted us to this project is the importance of checking the expiry dates and
how effective it is on health of the society.
-Properties of the product: Eco-friendly/Made for all community divisions/Usable by
special needs,deaf,blind and even who cant read/Useable internationally/Achieves
Qatar’s environmental vision/Inexpensive along with availability of materials.
-We consider it a bounce in the world of consuming products and biodegradable
materials ,has a promising future through guiding the next generation and the
present.
-We took a glimpse at bio-degradable materials which provided more information
and visions that will benefit Qatari society, that's why we got many ideas that
accomplish Qatar’s visions. For example: our product idea.
-Aim of the work: Settle a substance that alerts the consumer and the supplier about
the expiry dates of food products using the five senses, aiming to spread awareness
and decrease the chances of food poisoning.

10. Create a substance which will be placed in a visible
area on the food products that alerts the consumer
and supplier of expiry dates of the selected product
through using the human senses (Touching-Hearing-
Seeing).

11. We will make a plastic seal that is made of normal plastic polymers, and add
different quantities of “d2w” in order to make it a bio-degradable alert that
notifies the consumers and the suppliers about the expiry dates of the food
products, which will range in colors according to the duration of validity.to make
sure the alert doesn’t degrade from external factors in the time of storage, we
will put each one in a sack which has high pressure and is air-sucked.
Here’s a video of the process:

12. -We recommend all areas familiar with such a project to apply
it in all areas of food products, local and worldwide, in addition
to governments to apply strict laws and charges against those
who don’t follow the rules, and media to spread awareness due
to its importance and capability of decreasing food poisoning,
maintaining a healthy society.
-Also, if there are new and developed techniques that are
designed to improve the performance of our product we
welcome all suggestions and researches.

13. In the end,we,Team “Titanium” were so happy to be a
part of Al-Bairaq ,the week of activities was so
educational and enthusiastic we got to bring out
many ideas that resulted in founding our product
“Expiry dates alert”,which we believe is going to be
a worldwide thing to apply and talk about. All we
can say is that we wish the best for everybody,
specially the team of CAM who helped us in
everything.

14. 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 the sponsors UNESCO,
Qatar National Commission, Ras Gas, Maersk and
Shell.