Abstract
<p><em>Waste of young coconut fiber can potentially be used as reinforcement for new particleboard material. This potential agricultural waste is quite large in Indonesia. Styrofoam waste is also a problem to date. This is because the use of styrofoam as a food wrapper is still quite high in Indonesia. Besides being environmentally friendly, this particleboard also has economic value in the industrial world.</em><em> </em><em>Young coconut waste is crushed with a coconut fiber decomposing machine. Styrofoam as an adhesive is dissolved with gasoline. Each proportion of raw material for young coconut fiber: styrofoam, which is 25: 75 (%), 50: 50 (%), and 75: 25 (%).</em></p><p><em>The test results of the mechanical properties of the particleboard with Composition III showed better results than the particleboard with Composition I and Composition II, which obtained an average MoE value of 832.69 kgf / cm2, an average MoR value of 12.10 kgf / cm2, and the average IB value of 2.01 kgf / cm2.</em></p><p><strong><em></em></strong><em><br /></em></p>
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