The Assessment of Marginal Prevention Costs on Bamboo Preservation Method

Due to its low durability, the bamboo preservation is needed to prolong the bamboo lifespan. Although the preservatives have a great impact to make bamboo lifespan longer, some of bamboo preservation methods use chemical additives that have a negative impact on environment. Since there are so many kinds of bamboo preservation used, the observation study was carried out to reveal the bamboo preservation methods used by society in Indonesia. Three kinds of bamboo preservations were assessed, they are traditional method, modern method and the one which does not belong to traditional or modern one but it is generally used by some of society (trial-error). The object of the study is to assess the impact of bamboo preservation method used by society. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) method and eco-costs as marginal prevention cost were used as a tool analysis of this study.