Tea waste briquette molder as an effort to reuse organic waste

Production and consumption of tea in Indonesia can be considered moderate, thus giving rise to the generation of tea waste. The same potential also exists in tea producing and consuming countries such as China and India. Tea waste itself can be processed further to make charcoal briquettes. The technology in said briquettes has been existed since long, dated to 1989 and up to today. Nowadays various biowaste has been evaluated for use as briquette material. This paper will talk about a series of research that designed a tea waste briquette molder, a modification to the molder while also considering the mix of tea waste with other biowaste materials such as corncob and rice husk. It is generally understood that the molder is feasible to use as means to produce tea waste briquettes, but the mixture of the material itself can be explored further since there is other potential biowaste to use, while corncob and rice husk itself shows not far from standard performance if not beyond it. The molder and its modification holds potential use as a solution on agricultural waste handling, especially on reusing tea waste, combined with other agricultural waste.