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Plastics are using in almost every equipments of
modern lifestyle. Not only for shopping bags, but also use at other household
equipments. That is why plastics are so important in human life, but there is
negative impact of plastics usage for natural environment. Plastic is hard to
decomposed by soil. It is need a hundred years to make a plastic full disapear from our land. Can
you Imagine how many plastic rubishs will pile up our land day by day?
Indonesia has a big solution to solve this problem.
Sugianto Tandio is an owner of PT Tirta Marta, one
of plastic factory in Indonesia. He did 5-years research to found an earth-friendly materials for
his factory products, which is mean Cassavas. These plastic products only needs
lees than a year to decomposed. That is because these plastic is
bio-degradation plastic. Land living organisms will easly decomposed these plastics
by eating this raw material.
Actually, we can use other tubbers as raw materials
of earth-friendly plastics, but there is another reason of cassavas usage. Cassava
is one of big commodity in Indonesia. Cassavas are not the primer foods and
knows as the cheapest tuber in Indonesia. Besides, the flour that producted by
cassavas are more than the other tubers. That is why cassavas are choose as a raw
materials for earth
friendly plastic.
This factory is coorperate with some UKM in one
village at Bogor city to process a cassavas into cassava-powder. For your information, UKM is
called for little-middle bussiness in Indonesia. UKM usually consist of
villagers, such us household mothers or teenagers.
The process are devided to some steps. Firstly, UMK members removed peel of cassavas that already harvest from a field. After that, the cassavas are washed and mills into a powder then it is drieds under the sunlight until it dry. They are use bleach to makes the cassavas-powder has a whiter colour.
The next step is doing at the factory. The casavva-powder
that UKM produced is changed to be a plastic seeds. The plastic seeds is melted
and processed again into a plastic sheats. After be a plastic sheats, it shaped and colored
appropriate with a
design. This kind of plastics is call Ecoplas. Ecoplas from this factory
is already
used for some companies in other countries. Not only for shopping bag,
but also for other needs such us product packaging, doogie waste bag,
hanger and many more. Sugianto Tandio gets a lot of
accievents from all over the world as his innovation.
In conclusion, Plastics are not the biggest rubish
problem again with this inovation. Eventhough this is a earth-friendly plastics,
but we still have to minimize a plastics usage to hold the earth polution.
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