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RECOLOUR: REPURPOSING THE UNKNOWN

Mr. Vincent Chan, Dr. Yeow Jian Ai, Mr. Tai Hen Toong, Mr. Cedric Choong Ee Chun & Mr. Lim Siok Jin

AFFILIATION
Faculty of Business, Multimedia University

Description of Invention

The problem we would like to highlight is pollution and the education of indigenous kids. The material used in the colour pencil can lead to various pollution that can harm the environment. Production of dyes & pigments can include chemicals. If this is thrown into the landfills it can create pollution. The second problem is regarding the education of indigenous kids. They do not have the proper tools to study fundamentals like ABC. Re-colour is from upcycling the thrown colour pencil broken leads. These "unwanted or useless" broken leads will be collected and processed to be educational toys (eg: alphabet blocks).