Hear the word 'Trash Bank', what comes to your mind.
yes, at least you will imagine in your mind there is a bank that makes waste as savings for its owner so that later it can be exchanged with the original currency.
Waste Bank is a concept of collecting plastic / dry waste that has been sorted and has management like a bank, but what is saved is not money but garbage.
Residents who save are also called customers, and also have a passbook and can borrow money that will later be returned with garbage commensurate with the money borrowed. The stored waste is weighed and valued with a certain amount of money, and later it will be sold in factories that have worked together.
Now the Trash Bank is starting to get attention in the middle -
in the midst of the wider community, there are not a few Waste Banks that have succeeded, ensuring the waste of their customers and the funds generated reach billions of rupiah. There are also those who form their units into small cooperative groups with the aim that garbage banks can be accessed in various work areas for large unit groups.
In addition to preserving culture in processing waste into value, it can also reduce the pile of garbage that can cause disease, and flooding.
Basically, a waste bank is a strategy to build public awareness so that it can 'friend' with waste to get immediate economic benefits from waste.
So, a waste bank cannot stand alone but must be integrated with the 4R movement, so that the immediate benefits felt are not only the economy, but the development of a clean, green and healthy environment.
Garbage banks can also be used as a solution to achieve clean and comfortable settlements for its citizens. With this pattern, in addition to being disciplined in managing waste, the residents also get additional income from the garbage they collect.
Process and way of working
Just like in the banks of money storage, the customers in this case are the people who can directly come to the bank to make a deposit. Not the money that was deposited, but the waste they deposited. The waste is weighed and recorded in an account book by the garbage bank officer. In a garbage bank, there is something called garbage savings.
This is a way to turn trash into money, while keeping the environment clean from waste, especially plastic, and can also be reused.
Usually it will be utilized again in various forms such as bags, wallets, tissue boxes, and others. The condition of trash that can be saved is neat in terms of cutting. The point is when you want to open the packaging, use tools and neat in the cutting. Then it has been cleaned or washed.
Finally, you must deposit a minimum of 1 kg. There are two forms of savings in a garbage bank.
This is one alternative to solve the waste problem and participate in preserving the environment. Which in the end is good for the earth. No matter how small we do for this earth, it will definitely have a big impact on the survival of the earth itself.
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Lhokseumawe, January/30/2020
