BANK SAMPAH: UPAYA PEMBERDAYAAN MASYARAKAT DAN PENANGANAN LINGKUNGAN

Abstract

There are regulations of solid waste and kind of solid waste in their households. The
people to be responsible with their own solid waste by separating organic and non
organic solid waste in their households. Organic solid waste will be processed to become
compost as organic fertilizer for all plants. Non organic solid waste will be reuse and
recycle to become usefull things or sell them to trash collector. Take in hand by progresif,
simultaneous and integrated of organic solid waste and non organic solid waste is
reduse big volume of solid waste. One of method in handling non organic solid waste is
trash bank.This research about trash, trash bank in Indonesia and the sample of Nirwana
Trash Bank located in RW 07, Pedurenan Village, Karang Tengah, Tangerang City.
Nirwana Trash Bank has been operating more than two years (since 12 th October 2012),
number of member 80 person or only 22,15% of 361 households in RW 07, with 9
personil manajement (8 female, 1 male).
Keywords: regulations, integrated, reduse, reuse, recycle, trash bank.