The Potency of Developing Community Waste Bank in Semarang
Bintang Septiarani, Arief Khristanto, Amalia Wulansari
Urban and Regional Planning, Vocational School, Diponegoro University
BINTARI Foundation, Semarang
Abstract
Waste banks are not a new initiative, this activity has been carried out in many cities in Indonesia especially in Malang, Yogyakarta, Jakarta. Not only providing benefits to environmental waste management, waste bank had also has economic potential that can have a positive impact on the people who manage it. Many waste bank initiative in Indonesia are often managed by community groups with voluntary systems. Thus the voluntary system are mostly become the hurdles in managing the sustainability of the waste bank itself. Recently, study of the benefits of waste banks from the economic sector has been carried out to increase public interest in managing their waste. Semarang as one of the major cities in Indonesia also has initiated several waste banks. However, assessment on the potency especially when it giving the economic benefits to people who manage is has never been conducted. The methods to see the potency of waste bank in Semarang conducted through the three steps which are: profiling the existing waste management in Semarang, profiling the value chain and distribution of waste in Semarang, and Analysis of waste management development. Data obtained from this research are conducted through secondary and primary survey on 2016. The results of the study indicate that; the practice of Waste Banks has developed in the Sub-District, but has not significantly contributed to the reduction of waste and increases the level of economy for community. There are enough businesses to process inorganic waste in Ngaliyan District, but they are still not connected to one another. Price fluctuations are very dynamic and depend entirely on quality of the waste. Each type of waste has different market chains and distributions. With this waste bank potential study, it is expected to provide an overview of the potential management of waste banks in the city of Semarang so that it becomes a reference in the future development of waste banks.
Keywords: waste bank, Semarang, waste management, community management, value chain
Topic: Rural Resilience