scholarly journals A Model of Waste Management Improvement in Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
Yefta. A. K. Noegroho, Suzy Noviyanti, Jony. O. Haryanto, Lanita Winata

Waste management (garbage) is an important thing and cannot be negotiated by any companies. By applying a good waste management system, companies will be the companies that are pro-environment and they will be positively appreciated by their stakeholders. This study aims to examined the factors that influence the waste management and their impacts on the financial performance of the company through a model to determine the antecedents of commitment and waste management program that eventually lead to improve financial performance. This research was conducted by distributing questionnaires to 100 managers of companies that implement waste management programs. The results showed that there was a positive influence of awareness and legal compliance towards its environmental commitments and positive influence on the environmental commitment program of waste management and waste management programs towards the financial performance of the company. The waste management program could make the companies prepare their operation better and minimize their environment cost. This study also gives a boost to companies that wants to improve the company's financial performance through waste management program

2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurul Nadia Ramli ◽  
Joshua Anbuselven Varma ◽  
Mark Buda

Improper waste management has received remarkable attention from the stakeholders due to itsnegative impacts. Due to the increase in population, the waste generated in Malaysia also is increasing. Currently, landfilling is the main method of disposal. Considering few issues related with this approach such as the landfills have reached its capacity, environmental pollution as well as the bad condition of the landfill, alternative measure to manage the waste is crucial. Food waste can be utilized into other uses such as converting into fertilizer, electricity generation as well as the alternative for fuel. However, in order to implement such program, innovative measure for appropriate management of the food waste collection are required. In order to encourage the participation of household on food waste management, determining the preferred attributes by the household is crucial. Therefore, this study attempts to determine the household preferences for food waste management system in Malaysia as well as their willingness to pay for the food waste management system. The discrete choice experiment was used in order to accomplish the objectives of the study. The findings from this study suggests that the frequency and time of food waste collection are among the preferred attributes for food waste management system. The result also suggests that the willingness to pay for food waste management significantly varied by income and age of the respondents. Thus, it is suggested that if the government decides to come out with food waste management program, frequency and pick up time of the food waste are among important attributes that need to be considered.


Arsitektura ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theresia Damai T. ◽  
Kusumastuti Kusumastuti ◽  
Isti Andini

<p><em>Badran village is a village that used to have a reputation as thugs village and face the problem of garbage. Over time, this village managed to overcome the problem of garbage with 3R-based waste management program. This success is motivated by changes in social capital and leadership as a catalyst in the presence of co-operation. Forms of social capital that result in changes in the waste management system RW 11 Kampung Badran is trust, norms and networks. The third form of social capital and the existence of aspects of leadership affects the sustainability of programs aimed at managing waste in RW 11, Kampung Badran. For that we need further review of how the influence of the three components of social capital that is trust, norms and networks of the waste management system. The method used the descriptive qualitative method with the presentation of narrative technique. Based on the method applied was found that all three forms of social capital affects the implementation of waste management activities in the form of bank program garbage, composting and manufacture craft of garbage. Trust influence the process of knowledge transfer of cadres to the citizens, norms affect the implementation of programs and networks organizing effect on the acquisition of outside resources.</em><em></em></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>Keywords:</em></strong><em> </em><em>social capital, trust, norms, network, 3R</em></p>


2020 ◽  
Vol 167 ◽  
pp. 1950-1959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonali Dubey ◽  
Pushpa Singh ◽  
Piyush Yadav ◽  
Krishna Kant Singh

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