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The increasing worldwide demand for paper, combined with significant environmental challenges posed by conventional wood-pulp production and excessive agricultural waste, necessitates the development of sustainable material alternatives. This initiative enables us to address both problems by focusing on utilizing widely available agricultural waste as a primary source of cellulose for paper manufacturing. The project's main objective is to create innovative eco-paper from the fibers extracted from banana peels, which will possess unique characteristics, leading to the development of a new kind of smart eco-paper while assessing its physical, mechanical, and functional properties, including pH sensitivity testing. The procedure for producing the smart eco-paper involves the chemical pre-treatment of banana peels to extract cellulose fibers. Additionally, a natural pH-sensitive colorant was incorporated during the sheet formation process. This project successfully transforms a low-value waste product into a valuable low-cost product, demonstrating the waste to wealth concept clearly.The product of smart eco- papers was proposed to be used as an environmentally friendly paper with alkalinity sensitivity.