Banana bark fire starter / Muhammad Shahrulnizam Md Jailani, Mohamad Hafiz Zamri and Aiman Mokhtar

The main purpose that we have done in this research is to reduce the waste in the banana industry. Based on research almost 60% of banana biomass was left as waste only. In this paper we will focus of the use of banana bark to be change into fire starter. Along the process we have combine it with the wood particles before becoming fire starter. The method that will be use in producing banana bark fire starter is by using the pellet machine to make sure the combination of banana bark and wood particles become more compact. Banana bark has high content of cellulose which about 67.97% and cellulose it is considered as flammability properties that use in many applications in the world. The development of fire starter based on banana bark is cost effective because in producing it we completely used waste material that we can get from banana industry and wood industry. Many innovations being develop in agriculture industry but without a suitable cost and price the product will just be the innovation without going into the industry. In spite of that, we hope that our product will successfully enter the innovation industry in agriculture and contribute a lot of positive effect onto it.