Utilization of Dried Banana Trunk as Potential Alternative Rope/Tie for Construction
- GONZALES, Jessa May P.
- LUMACAD, Noreen T.
- MURILLO, Kyle D.
- VILLONO, John Mark M.
Abstract
The study, “UTILIZATION OF DRIED BANANA TRUNK AS POTENTIAL ALTERNATIVE ROPE/TIE FOR CONSTRUCTION”, is to create an alternative rope/tie from banana fiber that can be used for construction. Production of banana ropes ties can lessen the waste disposal of banana trunks during harvest season. The proposed ropes/ties were produced to consider the people from rural areas and the waste utilization of banana trunks. Cutting, extracting and braiding are the methods of doing banana ropes. The rope created by the researchers were found to be not effective for lifting heavy materials objects but only for the tying purpose (as shown in table 5.1). Banana can be found everywhere , therefore anyone can make it without expensive materials needed. The result can be used as a starting point for production, a banana rope that can help the resident from rural areas to save money and to protect the environment through waste utilization of banana trunks.
Background of the Study
In the Phillipines one of the most important fruit crops is banana. It is cultivated around the country. One of its part, the trunk is woven into very thin transparent fabric which is the principal material for men’s shirt and many finished products like yarn, cardboard, paper bags, and tea bags. According to several studies that have been conducted, these products only use 10% of pseudostem. Banana is the major source of pseudostem. It left a huge amount of pseudostem which when dumped or burned causing environmental pollution. For this reason the researchers conducted this study to make a rope from banana fiber, specifically to be used in construction. Mankind has been strongly dependent on plant fibers for different purposes. In earlier days, the natural fibers served a crucial role to answer the everyday needs of the people. But in recent years, synthetic products are dominating over the natural fiber, due to the low cost. But the synthetic fibers are non-degradable and causing serious pollution problems. (Balakrishna, 2013).