Properties of wood composite plastics made from predominant Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) plastics and their degradability in nature

• Arif Nuryawan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: arif5@usu.ac.id

  ¶Membership of the Center Excellence for Mangrove, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

  Affiliation Department of Forest Products Technology, Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4525-6937

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• Nova O. Hutauruk ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nova O. Hutauruk, Esra Yunita S. Purba, Ridwanti Batubara

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Forest Products Technology, Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia

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• Esra Yunita S. Purba ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nova O. Hutauruk, Esra Yunita S. Purba, Ridwanti Batubara

  Roles Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Forest Products Technology, Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia

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• Nanang Masruchin ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Research Center for Biomaterials, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Cibinong, West Java, Indonesia

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• Ridwanti Batubara ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nova O. Hutauruk, Esra Yunita S. Purba, Ridwanti Batubara

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

  ¶Membership of the Center Excellence for Mangrove, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

  Affiliation Department of Forest Products Technology, Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia

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• Iwan Risnasari ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  ¶Membership of the Center Excellence for Mangrove, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

  Affiliation Department of Forest Products Technology, Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia

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• Fatih Khusno Satrio,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation PT Horiba Indonesia, Tangerang, Banten, Indonesia

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• Rahmawaty ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Forest Management, Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia

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• Mohammad Basyuni ,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶Membership of the Center Excellence for Mangrove, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

  Affiliation Department of Silviculture, Faculty of Forestry, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia

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• Deirdre McKay

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Keele University, Keele, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9019-2207

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