St.

Augustine College Quezon City Campus

115 DHC Building Veterans Village EDSA, Quezon City
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

The Innovation of Recycled Materials and Ukay-ukay clothes to Form a New

Product

A Research Paper Presented to the Senior High School Faculty Member

St. Augustine School of Nursing (AMA)

In Partial Fulfillment of the requirements for the subject in

Practical Research I

by:

Adamos, Apple Joy R.

Amo, Angeline S.

Bañes, Alynna Kate M.

Britanico, Raven Dave L.

Joven, Catherine T.

Palermo, Tomasa M.

Panilan, Clarisse

Reyes, Kennedy Kyle

Unggon, Gerlyn Ashley D.

Yapchapco, Rovic G.

Ybanez, Ma.Andrei T.

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CHAPTER 1

I. INTRODUCTION

In 1031 Japan begins the first ever recorded reuse of waste paper. All of

the documents and paper are recycled and re-pulped into new paper, then

sold in local Staples across the country. In the year 1965 to 1970 the

Mobius Loop introduced the symbol for Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, the

symbol was designed by Gary Anderson after a Chicago-based recycled-

container company sponsored an art contest to raise environmental

awareness. In 1971, Oregon was the first state to pass a beverage

container deposit law. Then in 1980, Woodbury, New Jersey, became the

first city with a curbside recycling program. While the Ecological Solid

Waste Management Act of 2000 (RA 9003), which was promulgated in

January 2001 in the Philippines, officially declares to minimize solid waste

all through its process, without utilization of incineration technologies for

the purpose of ensuring the safety of human health and protection of the

environment as well as maximizing the efficient use of scarce natural

resources. On the other hand Ukay-Ukay is the Filipino adaptation of a

"flea market" and one of those typical features from the Philippines. It

began more than thirty years ago and in a short period of time became the

best bargain sensation in the country, from rags to riches, a shoe-string

enterprise, born out of necessity and grown into a lucrative fashion

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industry. The first resale stores were known as "wagwagan" because the

dust had to be shaken off ("wagwag") from the worn apparel.

Philippines is the world’s third-largest ocean polluter despite a waste

management act coming into effect 18 years ago. It generates 2.7 million

tonnes of plastic waste annually and 20 percent or half a million tonnes of

that leaks into the oceans. According to Froilan Grate, executive director

of the Philippines branch of the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives,

an absence of garbage collection services in secondary cities and many of

the country’s smaller islands is largely to blame for the overwhelming

amount of marine plastic coming from the country. Also, Fast fashion

include negative environmental impact, water pollution, the use of toxic

chemicals and increasing levels of textile waste. Vibrant colours, prints

and fabric finishes are appealing features of fashion garments, but many

of these are achieved with toxic chemicals.

We choose this topic because Philippines is one of the most polluted

country and we want to reduce too much garbage and old clothes through

recycling to form a new product and also to have an extra income so we

can also enhance our creativity and express our new ideas to create

something that is useful.

II. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

1. What innovation can be made to the following:

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1.1 Plastics

1.2 Pre-loved clothes

2. What do you prefer to innovate the most?

2.1 Misused things

2.2 Pre-loved clothes

III. SCOPE AND DELIMITATIONS

This study aimed to determine the innovation that we can make to

recycled materials and ukay-ukay clothes to form a new product

and its acceptability to the potential buyers.

The respondents for the study are (15) Grade 12 and (15) Grade 11

students of St. Augustine School of Nursing, Quezon City.

IV. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study is deem significant to the following:

Future researchers – It will give them additional information on

how effective recycling is, and how helpful to reuse an old clothes

and create unique product.

Teenager/Students – It can enhance their creativity and skills by

making a new product through recycling, it can also be their fun

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time. And specially they can save some money for buying ukay-

ukay/pre-loved product.

Adult – Even when they are older they can still make a business

when they at home. Instead of selling outside, at least inside the

house you are safe and it can also be both your exercise and past

time.

Seller/Reseller – It can help them to make an extra income, you

can still keep them out of the landfill by recycling them. Also you

can remake those clothes and resale it, but if you don’t have old

clothes to resell you can negotiate from other business owner and

ask them if you can be a reseller.

V. HYPOTHESIS

The selected grade 12 and grade 11 students of St. Augustine

School of Nursing, Quezon City has positive response in buying

innovated recycled materials and ukay-ukay clothes.

VI. CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

INPUT PROCESS OUTPUT

1. Garbage Recycling First, researchers Maximize the level of

need to collect

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misused things and recycling.

clothes.
2. People Satisfaction Second, researchers The potential buyers

need to plan the will be contented in

designs or what new the product we

products they will innovate.

made based on the

misused things and

clothes that they

collected.
3.Effectiveness of the Lastly, researchers will The people will be

innovation we made innovate the misused satisfied and will be

things to a new grateful because it will

product that can lessen the trash

benefit the potential instead of increasing

buyers. the garbage.

VII. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

The management of solid waste has become an urgent problem.

Product responsibility means that a product will accompany its

producer from cradle to grave: prevention, recycling and disposal of

waste are part of a theory of the firm which we develop under solid

residual management. We assume that the government stimulates

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firms to enhance recycling of resources by a fee on waste. A

comparative statics analysis shows the intact of a fee on waste

reduction, on the structure of the production process, on recycling,

on input demand, material saving effort, number of firms, and on

the amount of waste disposal.

We've experienced a failure in proper waste material since then, we

taught that when we bought something; for example food, this is a

norm, after we ate it we're gotta throw the garbage anywhere or

hopefully into the trashcan but we can actually use those wrappers

to become another product, less waste more incomes and we

never think of it that way same instance in used products such as

clothes, accessories and etc. basically those used products we

only oftenly sees in ukay-ukay, if its still working or in good

condition or maybe I guess they've fixed some products that's not

working in order for it to resell which we normally called reselling

VIII. DEFINITION OF TERMS

For clarity and better understanding of this study, the

following terms are defined in the context of this research. In order

to fully understand the terminologies used in the study, the

researcher gather the meaning of the following terms:

Innovation – It can refer to something new or to change made to

an existing product, idea or field. The process of translating an idea

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or invention into a good or service that creates value or for which

costumers will pay.

Recycling – Is the process of collecting and processing materials

that would otherwise be thrown away as a trash and turning them

into a new product. Recycling can benefit your community and the

environment.

Reselling – To sell something that you bought.

Waste – A situation in which something valuable is not being used

or is being used in a way that is not appropriate or effective.

Pre-loved – Is a shopping refers to buying clothes, bags and other

accessories that have already been used by someone else and

now they are up for sale for a second time. Normally, items include

in pre-loved products are often priced very low as compared to

buying that product new.

Product – Something that is made or grown to be sold or used;

something that is produced or influenced by a particular enviroment

or experience; something that is result of a process.

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