The Concept of Development by Making Use of Waste Plastic Bottles in the Pojok Village in Central Java Province

Abstract

This programs is an effort to utilize plastic bottle waste to become a container of viticulture planting media with external products in the form of a vertical garden and hanging plant garden. Starting from the abundance of used plastic bottles buried in the garbage bank of Pojok village and the existence of plant nurseries by the community and added enthusiasm and community participation in building the village. The object of this service was the people of Pojok village Central Java Province. This service program aims to increase public awareness in utilizing used plastic bottles that were previously only sold and as an effort to improve the agro-tourism opportunities. The method used in this activity is Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). PRA is an approach method in the process of empowerment and increasing community participation. The Pojok village community will be actively involved in identifying problems, prioritizing the problems to be resolved, making alternative solutions to problems, planning and implementing programs. In addition, the community is also involved in program evaluation. The analytical method is to measure changes in the knowledge and behavior of the pretest and posttest design using the Wilcoxon test. At the end it can be concluded that the program can be the best solution in utilizing the former plastic bottles into a park as well as an effort to make people aware and motivate the people in Pojok Village to be more creative in using former plastic bottles.