The study of household willingness to pay for solid waste management at Bekasi and Tangerang cities

Abstract

Organic waste is the dominant and the biggest waste from household. Actually, organic waste is degradable waste, but in city not enough place could used to dump the organic waste. The aim of this paper are to know the willingness to pay of household for solid waste facilities at Bekasi and Tangerang cities, to compare household retribution rate and willingness to pay among household in residential at Bekasi, and Tangerang cities, and to analyse the effort to improve the solid waste management at Bekasi and Tangerang cities. The quantitative method used in this research, and collect data by run the survey used questionnaire. Sampling method used purposively with criteria which are housewife live at residential in Bekasi or Tangerang city and manage their household solid waste by themselves. Data analysis method used descriptive and statistical t test. The average of household willingness to pay for solid waste facilities in Bekasi is Rp 33,814,- and at Tangerang is Rp 34,117,. From t test find that there are significance difference between retribution rate and willingness to pay of household at that two cities. Comparing the household willingness to pay among the household in Bekasi, and Tangerang cities not in amount of money paid, but more about the facilities that household got. The more good facilities offer, more willingness to pay from the household.