Coastal Community Perspective, Waste Density, and Spatial Area toward Sustainable Waste Management (Case Study: Ambon Bay, Indonesia)

Herdis Herdiansyah,Tito Latif Indra,Kunny Izza Indah Afkarina,Halvina Grasela Saiya

doi:10.3390/su131910947

Abstract

The coastal area has experienced significant changes of waste problems over the past few years. To resolve the waste problems in coastal areas, an understanding of community perception is needed to support government efforts. Therefore, this study aims to review people’s perspectives on the dynamics of waste in the coastal areas. Community perception data were compiled through semi-structured interviews with the surrounding communities in coastal areas. ArcGIS and load count analysis were used to analyze the waste density. Waste was collected from the coastal area in Ambon Bay and analyzed using waste density calculation and spatial analysis. The results show that the total waste density obtained at the coastal area of Ambon Bay is 0.249 kg/m2, of which 0.078 kg/m2 is the density of plastic waste, and 0.171 kg/m2 is the density of non-plastic waste. Communities in coastal areas have made efforts to deal with waste problems, but the efforts made are still ineffective in overcoming these problems. That problem happens because there is a lack of knowledge of the community and lack of infrastructure in coastal areas. The research results have the potential for replication in other coastal areas and are used as the basis of decision making for waste management improvement.

Highlights

Based on that framework of community participation, we argue that community participation can be developing if the waste management with regard to the waste facilities and community perspective is evaluated at the ground level
The Ambon City Bay area experienced significant changes in the physical elements of coastal ecosystems over the past few years, due to several forms of development on other coastal locations during that period. At this chosen coastal location, there has been a change in elements in the form of periodic shoreline changes. This change is a result of development in the coastal area, which is carried out in other coastal areas so that the physics style of waves and ocean currents place more weight on the other coast, and most are on the coast at the location
Communities in the Ambon Bay region have made efforts to deal with waste problems such as installing signs that prohibit littering, taking rubbish from every house with waste carts that is disposed in waste collection basins, and cooperating with students and the army to clean up the bay area once a week

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Some countries with long coastlines have a high priority for their coastal waste problems, and community participation developed as a result [4] Those problems resulted in issuing in various regulations regarding the prohibition of using disposable plastic packaging, waste repurchase programs, and making rules for recycling waste to strengthen the prevention and mitigation of coastal pollution [4]. This method should be used because if people are not mobilized to see positive opportunities from waste management activities, the impact can be severe. Those activities are important because waste can move to the sea and become marine waste

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