THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTEGRATED WASTE PROCESSING AND MANAGEMENT ON CREATIVE INDUSTRY IN TAMANSARI TOURISM VILLAGE, BANYUWANGI REGENCY TO IMPROVE THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC CLEANLINESS

Abstract

Banyuwangi is one of the Regencies under National Priority Rural Area. The potential being developed by Banyuwangi Government is the development of tourism village by exploring its resources. Tamansari village, Licin district has become the best tourism village on the category of business network utilization. Several obstacles were found along with the increase on number of tourists, tourists’ activities and insensitivity of its community to change: 1) littering on the road, river at ecotourism location 2) lack of environmental cleanliness as wastes were at large volume 3) cleanliness at  ecotourism location was not maintained 4) waste transported to landfill did not run well 5) environmental pollution due to community’s behavior that stored wastes in excavation of soil pit 6) odor pollution and diseases 7) lack of knowledge and skill in processing wastes 8) the village potential has not been utilized to improve its economic growth. In overcoming these problems, creative industry on laborintensive referring waste processing and management was established through technology product activities disseminating to community. Waste processing was done by converting organic wastes to compost through aerated static pile system which was useful for coffee plant and flower cultivations. Plastic wastes were processed into high-quality paving blocks; and some were processed into semi-raw material for plastic processing industry/collector.