Donna Youlla¹, Soemarno², Hendro Prasetyo², and A. Wahib Muhaimin²

Abstract: Trash bank is a concept of collecting disaggregated dry waste with banking management-like system. The trash savers are also called as customers who have a passbook and access to borrow money returned with trash.   The result of collected sorted trash will be deposited to either trash-based craft workshops or garbage collectors. Pontianak, with a population of 668,771 in 2016, is the capital of West Kalimantan Province developing toward big city; its amount of waste generated according to the Sanitation and Gardening Agency of Pontianak City is 731.086 M3 / Year.  Regarding this the local government has made several efforts such as trash bank program to overcome the problem, Trash Bank in Pontianak is a social engineering activity essentially aimed to teach the community to sort out garbage as well as to raise public awareness in processing waste properly and correctly which in turn will reduce the waste to transport to the landfill. One of the increasingly advanced trash banks able to empower the community around the city is Rosella trash bank located in Parit Tokaya, Pontianak. This trash bank is one of three trash banks that are quite active in Pontianak. Based on the results of previous research and the initial survey on some identified problems of trash bank management, the objectives of the research are to find: 1) the condition and profile of trash bank in Pontianak and 2) the main factors in managing trash to get a good solution of trash bank management problems in Pontianak. The research results revealed that of 12 indicators of trash bank’s success the role of government has the biggest contribution (23%), followed by the community participation (13%) and the regulation (12%). This shows that the role of government in trash bank management is very important. Management of a good trash bank will be better with the existence of government intervention because the trash bank program was initiated by the government supported by community participation and synergized with the regulations issued by the local government.

Keywords: Trash Bank, Waste Management, Local Government

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