PEMANFAATAN SAMPAH SEKAM PADI DAN BUNGKUS ROKOK SEBAGAI BAHAN DAUR ULANG KERTAS

The problem of waste is a social phenomenon which must be noticed by all parties, because every human being produce waste. The existence of waste produced is proportional to the population, the type of activity and the level of consumption of the community. Gadingsari, Sanden, Bantul Regency is an area which produces waste such as rice husk and cigarette packs. Both types of waste contain cellulose which can be used to make recycled paper. The aim of this study is to utilize waste into a recycled paper and find out the tensile strength and absorption of water on recycled paper. The type of this research is experimental research with the design of the Post Test Only Design with descriptive analysis. The tests carried out are water absorbency and strong pull of recycled paper. The production of recycled paper was with 3 variations of comparison, 1: 1, 1: 2 and 0: 1 (control). The water absorption test was carried out 9 times with an average of 56.2 mm, 67.4 mm and 95.6 mm. The tensile strength test was carried out three times with an average of 1.64 N / mm, 1.80 N / mm and 3.80 N / mm. Based on the testing of paper water absorption, it is known that all variations of paper conform the standards according to SNI 0499 in 2008, which are 50-100 mm. While testing the tensile strength of paper in accordance with the SNI 14-6419 standard in 2001 is a variation of control which is a minimum of 1.96 N / mm with a result of 3.80 N / mm. Therefore, the community is suggestedd to to apply the production of recycled paper from rice husk and cigarette packs. While, the researcher is supposed to be able to use other waste to produced recycled paper