Abstract
Natural Rubber is an important commodity for the world due to its valuable properties such as good elasticity and renewable. Natural rubber is used to produce various important products such as tire, sport equipment, and medical devices. With increasing demand for these products, the demand of natural rubber is projected to jump in the future. To fulfil this demand, the increasing of natural rubber production is unavoidable. However, to use natural rubber in producing those final products, it needs to flow through primary processing such as crumb rubber manufacturing process, crepe rubber processing and latex centrifuge processing. These processes become source of income for countries such as Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand as well as citizen of those countries. Despite of these positive impacts, the environmental impacts of natural rubber primary processing such as greenhouse gas emission, waste, high water and energy consumption are identified. Thus, to maintain sustainability, monitoring of sustainability impacts from natural rubber primary processing is necessary. Sustainability assessment is a procedure to evaluate sustainability impacts of products, process and policies. This paper aims to review sustainability assessment process applied in Natural Rubber Primary Processing.
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