Eco-Foam, Eco and Friendly Styrofoam from Fragmented Risk Husk

Styrofoam is a polysterine material that frequently used in Indonesia. Both in the food industries, electronic, or other industries. Yet according to Wibowo (2009) styrofoam is a material that is harmful to the environment, and health. Styrofoam waste is plastic waste which is difficult to be decomposed by environment. Need more than 500 years to decompose styrofoam. Whereas, Indonesia produces more than 500 million waste styrofoam every day. In the other hand, Java is island that is largest producer of rice in Indonesia. Each year, Indonesia produced 35 million tons of rice. 22% of rice production are rice husks. approximately 7 million tons of rice husk produced per year. Notice from the actual amount, rice husk is very potential to developed. And rice husk can be environmentally friendly styrofoam. This is evidenced by the value of the conductivity of a mixture of rice husk boards and resin have similary styrofoam’s conductivity values. EcoFoam, environmentally friendly styrofoam that fermented from rice husk, an adaptation from technology of making soybean cake (tempe) and ecocradle. This adaptation is based on the ability of tempe’s fungus hyphae (Rhizopus sp). The fungus hyphae can bind each component of soybean into one piece during the fermentation process. This program is as the adaptation from technology in making environmentally friendly styrofoam ecocradle made from agricultural waste in Europe by using fungal hyphae.Basidiomycota.