Waste in New Housing

Badrudin Kurniawan
1 min readJun 14, 2021

Since the mid of 2019, we have stayed at our new house. It is located in a densely populated area with a narrow road connecting to other areas. Thus, we frequently find traffic jams almost on any road. This house is in a new residential area as well. Many public facilities were not yet provided when we started to live here such as clean water pipe, place of worship, fiber optic network, et cetera. Additionally, there is still no waste transportation service whereas the number of new inhabitants continually grows. It leads the number of waste increases as well.

Currently, people who live in this new housing ask help from the local people to take the waste routinely. We give him a salary per month. Nevertheless, he often does not take the garbage regularly so the waste piled up in the garbage can for days. Therefore, we plan to make a waste bank organized by the community.

To set the waste bank up, we need to gather some information. We are going to learn from the closest waste bank about what should be prepared, how to manage the bank, what kind of garbage could be managed, how to decide the price of each type of waste, and so on. It is quite important for us to manage the garbage we have produced by ourselves. It can encourage the community to become more concerned about the surrounding environment.

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