BANAPEWA: banana peel as waste adsorbent / Amalina Amirah Abu Bakar

Recently, the use of waste materials gained attention among researchers to study the effectiveness of adsorbent media in dye treatment. The contaminants discharge in the dye processing causes the water to be polluted. Banana peel is an agricultural waste that has a potential in reducing dye concentration. The peel is the part with highest wastage, i.e., 30% to 40 % of waste produced from the banana fruits. Preliminary research shows that banana peel waste that produced daily in the household garbage and marketplace had affected to the disposal problems and environmental nuisance as well as in producing leachate. Thus, the author and team have developed a new product to reduce the dye effluents from the batik industrial wastewater.