Kegiatan Pelatihan Pemanfaatan Sampah Plastik Menjadi Produk Kerajinan Tangan Bernilai Ekonomis ini merupakan program aplikasi ipteks yang dapat memberikan solusi bagi permasalahan utama yang dihadapi oleh Mitra. Adapun Mitra pada kegiatan ini adalah remaja putus sekolah di Desa Alue Lim Kota Lhokseumawe. Permasalahn utama mitra adalah masih rendahnya tingkat pendidikan dan kesejahteraan mitra secara finansial serta belum dimanfaatkannya sampah plastik di Tempat Pembuangan Akhir (TPA) Alue Lim yang berada di wilayah mitra. Pelatihan ini bertujuan agar mitra mengerti dan menerapkan proses pemanfaatan sampah plastik menjadi produk kerajinan tangan seperti tas dan dompet yang bernilai ekonomis. Produk tersebut diharapkan dapat dijual sehingga dapat meningkatkan produktifitas dan kemandirin mitra secara finansial serta dapat mengurangi beban TPA dalam menampung sampah plastik. Kegiatan ini diawali dengan meninjau kondisi eksisting mitra kemudian dilanjutkan dengan pembinaan masyarakat dan workshop pembuatan kerajinan tangan dari sampah plastik. Hasil dari kegiatan pelatihan ini adalah bertambahnya ilmu dan keahlian mitra dalam hal pengelolaan dan pemanfaatan sampah plastik serta mampu membuat tas dan dompet dari sampah plastik bekas kemasan detergen, sabun, pewangi pakaian, dan plastik kresek yang bernilai ekonomis.Kata Kunci: anorganik, pemanfaatan, plastik, masyarakat, sampah

Research on making liquid smoke from teak and pine sawdust by pyrolysis which will be used as a natural preservative. Pine and teak sawdust carried out a pyrolysis process for 4 hours at a temperature of 400 o C using a pyrolysis reactor with a maximum capacity of 2 kg. The ratio of teak wood powder raw material: pine wood used 1:0; 0:1 and 1:1. Then purified by distillation with a distillation temperature of 100, 101-125, 126-150 o C. Liquid smoke application is used on tofu food with observation time of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 days. The quality of the liquid smoke produced is a mixture of sawdust and teak (1:1) at a distillation temperature of 126-150 o C, namely pH 3.1, density 1.028 g/mL and the clearest color and able to preserve food for up to 4 days.

Environmental problems caused by petroleum-derived plastic waste has become an important issue because it is difficult to degrade the environment. Therefore, attempts have been made to speed up the process of degradation of the polymer material is to replace synthetic polymers with natural polymer. Starch is a natural polymer that can be used for the production of material that is easily degraded, the raw material is abundant, but has a weakness in its mechanical properties. To improve the mechanical strength of starch, reinforcing material in the form of inorganic material is usually added in a polymer matrix. In addition to improving shelf life in a plastic made from natural polymers required additional antimicrobial. Therefore, bioplastics prepared by mixing cassava starch as a matrix, glycerol as a plasticizer, ZnO as an amplifier, and clove oil as an antimicrobial. The optimum conditions to produce bioplastics with the highest tensile strength of 23.40 kgf /mm 2 given by the addition of 0.8% of ZnO and 0.4 ml clove oil. While the highest percent elongation on the addition of ZnO 1%, and 0.4 ml clove oil which is 346 %. Based on the test results of water resistance and biodegradability, clove oil shown to inhibit the growth of micro-organisms bioplastics and bioplastic IR spectra do not show any new functional group.

The production of eco-enzyme usually takes a long time for fermentation, which is three months using natural microbes found in fruit peels. This research is experimental by focusing on accelerating the production of the eco-enzyme using two types of microbes, namely saccharomyces cerevisiae and aspergillus oryzae whose mass is varied by 5 variations, and the fermentation time is set for 20 days. The results showed that the ecoenzyme made by adding microbes had the same characteristics as the natural fermentation eco-enzyme. Furthermore, the eco-enzyme obtained from the research was added as an antiseptic in making solid soap. From the test results, the best inhibitory power was obtained in the eco-enzyme with the addition of saccharomyces cerevisiae as much as 10 g and aspergillus oryzae as much as 25 g. The inhibitory power test was carried out by comparing the number of bacteria present on unwashed hands with hands that had been washed using soap. The test results showed the number of bacteria on unwashed hands was 85 CFU, which were washed using samples with aspergillus oryzae as much as 4 CFU, with saccharomyces cerevisiae as much as 2 CFU, this inhibition is better than commercial antiseptic soap with a total of 8 CFU

Minyak nilam merupakan salah satu minyak yang paling populer di industri minyak aromatic. Nilai ekonomis minyak nilam sangat ditentukan oleh kualitas dan konsentrasi komponen utama dalam minyak. Usaha penyulingan minyak nilam di daerah Lhokseumawe masih dilakukan menggunakan alat tradisional, sehingga kualitas minyak yang dihasilkan tidak memenuhi standar mutu yang ditetapkan. Kualitas minyak nilam ditentukan oleh karakteristik alami masing-masing minyak dan komponen asing yang tercampur di dalamnya. Adanya komponen asing tersebut tentunya akan menurunkan kualitas minyak nilam yang dihasilkan. Proses purifikasi secara kimia atau fisika sangat dibutuhkan untuk meningkatkan mutu dan nilai jual minyak nilam. Proses purifikasi yang dilakukan adalah untuk pemurnian minyak nilam hasil produksi industri lokal. Proses pemurnian ini bisa menghasilkan minyak yang lebih cerah dan karakteriknya memenuhi persyaratan mutu standar. Artikel ini merupakan hasil uji laboratorium terhadap minyak nilam produksi lokal Desa Meunasah Mee Kecamatan Muara Dua Kota Lhokseumawe