The Effect of Social Capital on the Sustainability of the Waste Bank Program in Bondowoso Regency

Abstract

Bondowoso is one of the cities in Indonesia that has contributed significantly to the total volume of national waste with total waste generated reaching 470 tons per day. In order to overcome these problems, the government through the Department of Environment and Transportation of Bondowoso seeks to establish a waste bank in the hope of inviting the public to participate in sorting waste from its source so that no more garbage enters the landfill or at least can reduce the volume of waste entering the landfill. The method of collecting data using questionnaires and interviews collected from 5 groups of waste banks with a total of 69 research respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive quantitative methods and multiple linear regression tests. The results showed that there was a significant influence between social capital on the sustainability of the waste bank program with a regression coefficient of .000.

Bondowoso is one of the cities in Indonesia that has contributed significantly to the total volume of national waste with total waste generated reaching 470 tons per day. In order to overcome these problems, the government through the Department of Environment and Transportation of Bondowoso seeks to establish a waste bank in the hope of inviting the public to participate in sorting waste from its source so that no more garbage enters the landfill or at least can reduce the volume of waste entering the landfill. The method of collecting data using questionnaires and interviews collected from 5 groups of waste banks with a total of 69 research respondents. Data were analyzed using descriptive quantitative methods and multiple linear regression tests. The results showed that there was a significant influence between social capital on the sustainability of the waste bank program with a regression coefficient of .000.