Daur ulang limbah shaving industri penyamakan kulit untuk kertas seni

A research has been done on recycling of shavings waste for art paper. The aim of this research was to utilize shaving waste from tanning industry for making art paper in order not to pollute the environment, and to add raw materials to the manufacture of art paper. In this study the majority of shaving waste was used as a motif (20%) and partly made of pulp (10%) together with paper waste (newspaper). As the materials starch and resin adhesive (fox) used was (1%) that served as an adhesive. Dyes were used to the beauty of the appearance of art paper. There were two stages of the paper making, first made from waste paper pulp added with the waste shaving, then printing given motives shaving motive of waste too. Part of the sheet of paper were pressed (about half), and the other parts were not pressed. They were then tested on gramatur art paper, tear index, tensile index, and the fracture index. The test results showed that pressed art paper had a tear index, tensile index and the fracture index (3.85; 0.59; 8.4 x 10 -3), and the impressed was (3.57; 0.52; 6.9 x 10 -3) respectively the art paper that used fox adhesive on the pressed (15,545; 0,76; 3528 x 10-1), and on impressed (16,366; 0,80; 3549 x 10-1). The overall appearance of art paper results could still compete with the art of paper are the market.