About this project

Waste management issue has been a long occurring problem in Indonesia, particularly in Bali. With a low sorting rate at source, mixed waste is piled up at the landfill with little to no advance processing. This raises concern regarding the waste management system in the local community. Lack of awareness is one of the main reasons why local community still have their waste mixed up during collection. Looking back at this pressing issue, we aim to raise the local community awareness in the waste management system by conducting a project focusing on education and socialization. Key points of the education will be mainly talking about how to manage and sort waste at source to increase their value and reduce the amount of mixed waste that end up at the landfill.

This project will be carried out by Griya Luhu, a digital waste bank based in Bali who also serves the environmental community. Through waste bank activity, we encourage local community to bring their sorted recyclables to be exchanged with incentives. This program has been successful in bringing people to start sorting and managing their waste wisely. Since its establishment in 2017, we have been working with multiple villages across Gianyar Regency in developing a waste bank system to aid the local community in sustainable practices. As for this project, we chose five villages to collaborate with; Lebih Village, Batuan Village, Sidan Village, Petak Kaja Village, and Keramas Village. We decided to implement the project on those villages due to their infrastructure readiness in waste collection. Since we aim to give education in waste sorting at source, the sorted and managed waste needs to be collected and stored properly. This is why we chose villages which have established a waste management system center point (TPS3R) as a collecting point for the local community’s waste.

Since we are working with the local community, education and socialization will be tailored to their behavior condition. We acknowledge that building a habit is not an easy job to do. This is why we will start with the small steps first, which is sorting waste at source into three categories; organic, recyclables, and residuals. Our main takeaways for the education will be providing better understanding on how and why waste should be separated. We also aim to conduct capacity building training for the environmental dedicated team in the villages (if any). This step is important in ensuring the longevity of the program, even after the project has been finished.

Our main goal within this project is to reach as many people as possible and raise their awareness in a better waste management system. We also target to reduce waste that goes to landfill by giving a rightful process based on categories. For example, organic waste goes to the composting process at TPS3R and recyclables are distributed to the recycling center via waste bank activity. This way, since other types of waste have been processed, only leftover residuals are sent to the landfill.

Goals and Objectives

Our main goals and objectives of the project is to raise and increase awareness of local community on proper waste management system. We aim to achieve this goal through education and socialization about waste sorting into three categories. After the education, we expect to witness a result in the form of an increased waste sorting rate.

As for the target audience, we will be targeting housewives, since they are the frontline enforcer for developing waste sorting at source habit in the household. We want to give women an important role in developing sustainable practices at the villages we are conducting the project. Furthermore, by targeting housewives, we wish that what we give during the education session can be passed to the other family members as well.

While there is potential to do this in other villages, we suggest the target villages to maintain the sustainability of this project by continuing the education through the environment dedicated to the assigned team. This is why, along with the housewives, we also target the environmental dedicated team (if any). We will conduct capacity building for them, with hope that they can continue the education to the local community, even after the project has finished. The team can expect to be benefited from the training, since we will also provide education tips and deliverables they can use when continuing the education. By doing this, we hope to see the project to be sustainable and run for a long time.

Along with targeting the housewives, since we also conduct capacity building for the environmental dedicated team, we also target them to be able to pass the education. They can expect to benefit from the capacity building we conduct.

Expected result

For the result, we expect to reach 2000+ audiences for the education session across five target villages. After the education, we also aim to witness an increase in waste sorting rate at source. Utilizing the digital system, Griya Luhu App, we will compare the sorting rate data before the project started, and after the project finished. We aim to increase the sorting rate up to 20% in three months after education has been conducted.

About me / organisation
Ni Luh Putu Ratih Pravitha

A passionate young woman who is currently doing work in raising sustainability awareness and empowering the local community through waste management education. Along with Griya Luhu team, we believe in the power of people as the subject of developing a better waste management system. Responsible for project and program development in Griya Luhu. She also has a leadership portfolio as educator team coordinator for an education project in Badung Regency, Bali.

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