Many banks also accept organic waste while the rest endorses composting at home. Transactions are recorded preferably in a bank book that the customer holds or alternatively in lists kept by the bank. Bank customers bring all non-organic waste to the banks where it is treated like a deposit. Waste banks are set up in neighborhoods typically for about 1000 residents and are usually run by poorer people who wish to increase their income. According to the ministry, garbage management with a lot of positive impacts through the waste bank development program is inseparable from the participation of people, especially from the grassroots level. The Ministry of Environment of Indonesia promotes Waste Banks as the new strategic program.

A NewВ ConceptДecentralized waste banks, trash banks, garbage banks or Bank Sampah as they are called in Indonesia are a new convincing concept for waste management. Why? Because they present unprecedented win-win situations, while easy and cheap to implement. It is remarkable that hundreds of millions of Dollars poured into theresearch of centralized large scale waste facilities in Indonesia (like the TEMESI waste recovery facility) that generate only a few if any replications, while small scale decentralized waste banks for a fraction of 1000 Dollar multiply very rapidly throughout Indonesia without much assistance or funding.

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