Waste Bank as Community-based Environmental Governance: A Lesson Learned from Surabaya

This paper discusses an implementation of waste bank as community-based environmental governance. Waste bank as a business is owned by people who consider waste as a valuable economic commodity and savings, has instruments that involving community in waste management. In Surabaya, waste bank grows rapidly and has supported community's livelihood and encourage people's self-reliance in environmental management. The objectives of this study are (1) analyze the role of waste bank in supporting community-based environment governance; and (2) analyze how public engagement (community, government and private sector) by waste banks implementation creates effective and collaborative environmental management. This study is conducted using descriptive-analytics based on informant interviews, desk study, and field observation.