The Go Go Haf team of the Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) won a silver medal in the Smart City category at Gemastik XIV with a prototype called Bhusana. This machine is able to facilitate the distribution and recycling of clothes. The Go Go Haf team consists of Fitria Urbach and Aprilia Susanti from the Mathematics Department, and Fairuz Hasna Rofifah from the Informatics Engineering Department. In addition, the Go Go Haf team was guided by one of the ITS supervisors from the Department of Informatics, namely Hadziq Fabroyir SKom PhD. Also in the making of this prototype, assisted by Riko from Electrical Engineering and Zahra from Informatics Engineering.

Fitria Urbach, Head of the Go Go Haf Team, said that textile industry waste is still one of the urgent problems in Indonesia today. Thus Bhusana was created to simplify and increase both efficiency and transparency in the distribution of recycled clothing.

"The sustainable fashion movement through the clothing recycling process can be implemented properly if the government is involved in it," he said, Tuesday (2/11).

There are three processes that must be carried out by the user, namely the collection process, the retrieval process, and the sorting process. The collection process is a process where clothing donors take photos of the clothes to be donated. Then, Bhusana will recognize the clothes with three types of classification, namely clothes that are suitable for wear, clothes that are not suitable for minor damage, and clothes that are not suitable for major damage.

After going through the process, Bhusana will print a Quick Response (QR) Code for the identity of the clothes and Bhusana will open the lid of the box automatically. After that, the donor is expected to put the clothes into a box and later the donor will get a coupon which can later be exchanged for groceries.

"Furthermore, the clothing data that has been collected in the Bhusana box will be sent to the cloud service database," he explained.

Furthermore, according to Fitria, the pick-up process is the delivery of a truck whose job is to pick up any clothes that have been stored in Bhusana boxes scattered in the village. Then, the truck will go to the clothes recycling bank.

"Clothes will be sorted between appropriate and unfit for use at the bank with the help of a QR Code," he said.

In the end, the sorting process is carried out by the officers making decisions regarding the distribution of the used clothes. Fitria explained, there are three choices of destinations. Namely, clothes that are not suitable for use with minor damage will be distributed to Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) as production materials. Then, clothes that are not fit for use with major damage will be sent to a textile waste recycling factory, and clothes that are fit for use must go through the outfit matching stage first.

Fitria added that in the future the Go Go Haf team will develop existing features and include Bhusana in other competitions. (Nani Mashita)