Ecological Smart and Sustainable Waste Management: A Conceptual Framework

Abstract

This study has an objective to formulate a conceptual framework of sustainable municipal waste management in Indonesia. The framework validation was taken place in four urban cities in Indonesian, inorder to identify whether the framework applicability to be used in developing country environment. The approachs to the study consists of literature review and formulating conceptual framework, validating and revising the conceptual framework based on phenomenon and local tradition, and implications of the revised framework. Based on the analysis, it was found that there are two specific components that called animal edible materials and combined waste bank which should be integrated into the revised framework. Internet of Thing makes the integration possible. The revised framework undertakes to resolve complex and huge amount of waste, to maximize economic benefit from the waste, to increase effective waste management, to provide affordable green material food for animals, and to substitute expensive animal concentrate, and to provide better public health sectors.