A comparative analysis of amount of seafood waste disposal against the potential earnings from converting the waste into chitosan for TCSO Restaurant
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https://doi.org/10.15282/jgi.8.2.2025.11891Keywords:
Chitosan, Shrimps, Yield, BiopolymerAbstract
Seafood waste is a significant issue in Malaysia particularly when it comes to maintain environmental sustainability. There are several types of seafood waste such as shellfish waste, crab waste and shrimps’ waste. In this research paper, we are focusing on shrimp’s waste which can produce chitosan, a beneficial raw material in several industrial such as food, agriculture and medical. The weight of shrimps’ waste disposal is taken count to know how much potential earnings based on the market price of chitosan. There is a research gap as the net price of chitosan produced remain unknown due to this research paper only focusing on a specific restaurant. There is requirement of further research about the actual profit that can earn when chitosan is produced from the shrimps’ waste. However, we focus on 1 specific product of chitosan which its brand is RunJIe. This chitosan provides high purity with specific mesh and DAC. This price of product can indirectly to calculate the revenue of selling chitosan based on its market price. This research paper shows the potential of utilise the seafood waste into beneficial raw material rather than treated as disposal waste. In addition, this paper shows that seafood waste can be minimised by making them as useful product and cut the cost of disposal.
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