AIU Alive Shop is a Social Business thrift shop aimed to reduce waste materials such as clothes, shoes, handbags and any items that can be reused or resold to the public. Profits gained will be used to improve digital literacy for rural school children in Baling and Sik, Kedah by providing them laptops and computers.

Growing trends of online shopping have generated plastic waste for online shopping packaging. Based on the sources, there is an increase of 50% in tonnes pertaining to plastic waste for the packaging segment this year alone as compared to last year. This volume of plastic waste finally ended up in landfills and polluting the environment.

Our team's solution would resolve the single-used plastic waste with the focused theme of reducing. We are to introduce reusable packaging alternatives towards the online shopping users for them to be able to enjoy the same unboxing experience but with a more sustainable alternative. The mechanism of the business operation would involve the end user in curating the resources with the integration of a courier service provider in the fulfilment of our product system.

Craftastic by Genesys is a social-environment business in Batu Pahat dedicated to turning trash into cash by repurposing discarded banners into useable products and selling them through social empowerment projects.

Genesys views this as a solid starting point because 92.8 percent of respondents are unaware of banner disposal management in their community, resulting in 81 percent of respondents disposing of their banner improperly, such as open dumping and burning.

As such, we would like to propose a banner depot that would be a one-stop centre for collecting and processing banner waste into useable products. Our approach will engage Batu Pahat’s B40 residents to improve their social well-being.

Green Asteroid is a group of young and aspirational people who wishes to create a green social business based in Johor Bahru to solve the ever-rising problem of single-use food packaging waste. According to Astro Awani, each person contributes 16.7kg of packaging waste and Malaysia used 148’000 tonnes of plastic packaging for food in 2020 alone due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

O-Waste Lab is an environment-conscious social enterprise that aims to reduce plastic waste by replacing plastic and polystyrene containers with alternative food packaging solutions through continuous research and development.

Our impacted area will be in Johor Bahru as we wished to collaborate with both local businesses and the government to penetrate into the Malaysian market and become the pioneer of green social business in Malaysia and in the future, expand to Southeast Asia.

We are focusing on reducing E-waste. Before they’re being thrown away there’s a chance for electronic devices to be fixed and be reused, and after all they need to be distinguished from the other types of waste. Estimated that Malaysians generated 364 Kilotons (Kt) of e-Waste in 2020. We are focusing our project on landfill areas in Malaysia. GREENFIT implements 2 strategies of Repair and Reuse. Our company’s goal will be attained by holding an E-Waste Awareness Campaign, and advertisement on how we can repair electronic devices before we dump them. We execute our project by providing an app for customers to book an appointment for device repairmen. We will set up a partnership with the technician who will be working on line to help fix the devices and the driver to pick will collect the e-waste, which will be distinguished from the other type of dumps, to make it safer and sustain it longer. We will provide a great user experience for each and every customer who uses our application.

Today's fast-fashion industries are becoming more enormous in this consumptive era. The amount of clothings being consumed by people is surging, and so does fabric waste. A research by Ali et. al, in 2020 shows that on average, a single household in Shah Alam produced 19kg of fabric waste per year. From a mini-survey done by Re-FAB, it was found that 72.7% of the respondents did not know any organizations that provide cloth donation or collection services, which worsen the management of the highly produced fabric waste.

To alleviate this issue, waste management for fabric waste in Shah Alam must be improved. RE-FAB is taking the initiative to tackle this problem by collaborating with current collection bin provider for fabric waste and upcycling fabric waste into newly valuable goods, specifically pet products, while raising the awareness of fabric waste and its management. Our goal is to be able to upcycle 25% of fabric waste from single fabric waste bin and able to sell 80% of products produced on our first year of operation.

Rejected and used paper used by residents in Alor Malai, Kedah. Based on a survey 23% people dispose the paper. The reason to why the problem is happening is due to the fact that people tend to throw away the paper instead of recycling it due to the ease of disposing in an improper method.

Our solution would be collecting those used papers and creating a product from it. We will reuse the papers and the product that will be created from it will be something visually pleasing.

The impact of this solution will be that there will be a decrease amount of paper that is kept in a household and a decrease of paper being disposed improperly.

According to the National Solid Waste Management Department Malaysia, disposable diaper waste contributed to approximately 12% of the total waste decomposed in a landfill, and the pathogens from the solid waste of diapers may potentially contaminate water sources and consequently, pollute drinking water in Alor Setar, specifically in Tun Abdul Razak and Taman PKNK.

In order to tackle it, our team will produce reusable cloth diapers with a collaboration with the single mother community for the production processes. Other than the production, we will also create a platform to educate and inform a larger number of people for them to be more aware of the problem and shift their preference to the eco-friendly reusable cloth diapers.

To overcome attitude in handling cooking oil waste and inculcate recycling culture among the community towards cooking oil that always takes for granted by the household by reusing the used cooking oil through making scented candles instead of throwing it to the sink and drain that will lead to pollution to the environment.

Fabric wastage is becoming a global phenomenon which has been a worldwide concern for several decades including in Malaysia and dumped fabric waste accounts for 5% of all landfill space in Malaysia. The problem of fast-moving fashion trends, space consumption in household and lack of awareness among Malaysians has arisen the environmental pollution cause by fabric waste in Malaysia.

With the strategy of reuse, reduce, and repair, the propose solution of fabric waste is through Thrifty Fashion. Collection of unused clothes through 'Thrifty Bin' then undergo the process of grading, repairing and lastly being tagged with "Thrifty Badge" which promotes the awareness and social-class status. Thrifty Fashion also provide the best thrift store experiences to the user as well as upcycling the severe damage clothes into a new product. Thrifty Fashion is an absolute social business in solving the fabric waste issue in Malaysia.

Fabric waste is the second largest polluter in the world. Just in Malaysia alone there has been a dumped record of 195,300 tonnes in 2018 that will affect the environment & landfill badly. Malaysians have a lack of awareness and tend to have poor fabric waste management.

Our solution to that problem is to upcycle fabric waste, specifically large sized ones. The fabric will then be reviewed, washed, cut up, and coloured using sustainable dye as a strategy to not only incorporate non-toxic chemicals but also to upgrade its appearance into a timeless design of multipurpose blankets and mats. We also welcome customers to return back our product where we will manage and repair their fabric waste.

As a group of sustainable entrepreneurs, we believe that fashion should not contribute to the world's pollution. We aspire to make fashionable homeware that are also eco-friendly and cozy for your ideal home.