What is it about?
This study explores how residents and apartment managers can work together to manage household waste more effectively. It proposes a community-based model using waste sorting, Reduce–Reuse–Recycle (3R), incentives, clear rules, and shared responsibility. The proposed approach responds to the current situation in which waste is largely collected without sorting and transported for final disposal.
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Why is it important?
Waste management is becoming increasingly difficult in densely populated urban housing. At Gateway Ahmad Yani Apartment in Bandung, waste is still largely mixed and disposed of through a conventional collection system. Limited sorting facilities, weak communication and enforcement, and low resident participation make sustainable waste management difficult. The supporting survey found that all 17 respondents were unaware of an existing waste-management program, while 12 of 17 did not consistently separate their waste. The study shows that changing this system could generate meaningful environmental and economic benefits. The apartment produces an estimated 120 m³ of waste per month, of which approximately 60% is organic. The proposed approach could potentially divert 46.8 m³ per month from final disposal. The study also estimates potential economic benefits of approximately IDR 64.32 million per year through reduced disposal costs and recyclable materials. More importantly, the findings show that waste is not simply a technical problem of collecting and transporting rubbish. Effective waste management also depends on community participation, appropriate facilities, environmental awareness, consistent rules, and collaboration between residents, managers, community organizations, and government.
Perspectives
For residents: Sustainable waste management starts at the source. Separating organic, recyclable, and residual waste allows residents to directly contribute to cleaner shared spaces and reduce the amount of waste sent to landfill. For apartment managers: Providing clearly accessible sorting facilities is as important as establishing rules. Management should combine education and communication with incentives, monitoring, and consistent enforcement rather than relying primarily on conventional waste collection. For community organizations: Groups such as PKK and resident representatives can become important drivers of behavioural change, recycling initiatives, waste banks, and collective environmental responsibility. Existing initiatives demonstrate that recyclable waste can also generate resources for social activities. For local government and policymakers: High-density vertical housing requires waste policies that connect municipal regulations with practical community-level implementation. Support for 3R education, monitoring, infrastructure, and community empowerment can help shift urban waste management from a “collect and dispose” system toward a circular and participatory approach. For other urban communities: Although developed from one apartment complex in Bandung, the proposed model provides practical lessons that could inform similar initiatives in other high-density residential settings. Its central message is simple: sustainable urban waste management works better when residents are treated as active partners rather than merely as waste producers.
Professor Septiana Dwiputrianti
STIA LAN Bandung
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This page is a summary of: Model Pengelolaan Sampah Berbasis Komunitas di Apartemen Gateway Ahmad Yani Bandung, JURNAL ILMIAH GLOBAL EDUCATION, June 2026, LPPM Institut Pendidikan Nusantara Global,
DOI: 10.55681/jige.v7i2.5619.
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