Social Capital and Social Impact in Waste Management of the Waste Bank System in Yogyakarta Indonesia
Sri Haryanti1, Evi Gravitiani2, Mahendra Wijaya3, Adhy Timur Hartanto4

1Lecturer of Environmental Health Poltekkes Kemenkes Yogyakarta
2Lecturer of Post Graduate Program, Sebelas Maret University (UNS)
3Lecturer of Social and Political Science Faculty, Sebelas Maret University (UNS)
4 Sanitarian of Puskesmas Wirobrajan, Yogyakarta

Abstract

Waste bank is one of trash management using 3R (Reuse, Reduce, Recycle) in waste management at its source at community level. The scheme of waste bank is based on the application of social capital covering the core elements of the implementation of social capital that are trust, norm, network, reciprocity and value. This research aims to examine the relationship between social capital and social impact of waste management using waste bank Programme in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This paper studied social impacts which cover income raising, employment and environmental hygiene. The study was conducted in October-December 2016. The subjects in this study were 100 customers of waste bank of 5 locations in Yogyakarta. This study employ spearman correlation to analyze the data using SPSS 16. The results reveal the correlation between social capital and social impact to increasing income and employment is weak. It is showed by the values of coefficient of correlation (r) are 0,111 and 0,095 respectively with significant value of 0.346> 0.05. Furthermore, the correlation between social capital and social impact to environmental hygiene has a fairly is strong with coefficient value (r) of 0.454 at significant level of 0.00 <0.05.

Keywords: waste bank, social capital, social impact

Topic: Environmental Health