Bio-container production from water hyacinth

Abstract

In this research, water hyacinth was used as fibers for bio-container production. The fibers were classified into 3 types, derived from leaves, stalk and mixed of them with two types of binder i.e. glutinous rice flour and corn flour. The obtained food containers were tested for their density, water permeability, oil permeability and mechanical properties. It was found that increasing the amount of binder decreased density, water and oil permeabilities of the containers and then increased their tensile and tear strengths. The optimum condition for molding the containers was that using of stalk fiber with glutinous rice flour as binder with the ration of 3:1.