A designer’s decision to determine material of a product actually reflects his awareness toward any possible impact, including ecology consequences that may occur. Due to this issue, a consideration to use an eco-friendly material becomes more serious priority nowadays. An alternative of this material can be obtained through utilization of banana peduncle. Banana peduncles are waste from food processing industries that use bananas as the main ingredient. As a study case, a local SME of banana chip and cake business in Central Java, Indonesia, produces approximately 10-50 kg of wastes of peduncles per day. The banana peduncle wastes usually are heaped on the ground in the backyard or directly dumped along the river. It causes not only environmental pollution but also endangers people’s health and sustainability around. This research aims to utilize the worthless banana peduncle waste as a valuable product material. Besides its huge supply, banana peduncle is also known as a renewable and biodegradable material. Moreover, the ropes from banana peduncle fibers had a comparable tensile strength to coir ropes and almost equal to abaca fibre ropes. Therefore, the opportunity to use banana peduncle waste for designing functional products with commercial value can be more developed. The method used in this research is structural and visual exploration of banana peduncle fibre through various plain plaiting techniques. The results of this research are several certain plaiting patterns that expose the strength of structure and attractive visual appearance of banana peduncle fibre. Then, a plaiting pattern is applied on a modular multifunctional shelf as a design recommendation. The design concept of this product is based on some of eco-design principles and strategies so it will give minimum ecological impact. Furthermore, this research is expected to offer another preference to resolve the waste problem around the food processing industries and to give an alternative additional income for local people. Accordingly, by utilizing local natural materials, they do not need to rely on the supply of raw materials from the other regions which will increase the price, the use of fuel, and the amount of air pollution. Keywords Banana peduncle; fibre; waste; eco-friendly material; eco-design