ANALYSIS THE IMPACT OF WASTE BANK ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ON KNOWLEDGE LEVEL, PERCEPTION AND ATTITUDE OF THE COMMUNITY IN WASTE MANAGEMENT

Household waste management is still a problem in Indonesia. This usually happens in big cities like Bandung. The common problem is the lack of facilities and transportation for household waste management. One of solution that can be done for this problem is the development of community-based hous...

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Main Author: Ananda Husen, Tiara
Format: Theses
Language:Indonesia
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Online Access:https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/79481
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Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung
Language: Indonesia
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Summary:Household waste management is still a problem in Indonesia. This usually happens in big cities like Bandung. The common problem is the lack of facilities and transportation for household waste management. One of solution that can be done for this problem is the development of community-based household waste management, namely the waste bank. The establishment of a waste bank will certainly be more effective if it starts with a mentoring program such as educating managers and the community about the waste bank system and the importance of managing waste from sources. A waste bank with a mentoring program is expected to produce a higher level of knowledge, perception, and attitude of the community towards waste management. The purpose of this research is to analyze the difference in the level of knowledge, perception and attitude of the society in Waste Bank A who has received an assistance program with Waste bank B who does not has received an assistance program. The instruments of this research use questionnaires that contain questions from the variables level of knowledge, perception, attitude, perceived behaviour control (PBC), intention and behavior waste management based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). The Mann Whitney comparative test analysis and the double linear regression test were used in this study with the total respondents of 78 respondents from Waste Bank A and 76 respondents from Waste Bank B. The results of the research showed that the level of knowledge, perception and attitudes of the society around Waste Bank A and Waste bank B are significantly different (p-value = 0.00). The behavior of the community around the Waste Bank A shows higher yields than Waste bank B, with an average of 2.4 kg of wastes selected, the average customer balance of Rp. 107,000 and the number of people who have joined is 9 people.