Eco-Waste Banks

Eco-Waste Banks: An Alternative Source Of Electrical Energy Powered Traditional Market Waste Market

Annisa Ulfah Pristya^1
1Faculty of Agricultural Technology, Brawijaya University

Traditional market in Indonesia reached untill 13.450 with the number ranging of traders market from 12.625 million people. however, the high amount of the market in Indonesia is not offset by the disposal facility and good waste management. This is due to low awareness of market traders to dispose of waste properly. On the other hand, electricity is a very important source of energy for almost all sectors of society in Indonesia. Unfortunately, the source of electrical energy depends only on one source that uses fossil fuels which the availability are continues to decrease. Thus, needed an alternative source of electrical energy is abundant availability. Solutions offered is eco waste bank, a converter tool waste into electrical energy. The implementation steps are, that every trader collect garbages from their stall to Eco-waste banks which available in the market and fermentative processed by the Eco-waste bank then generated electricity supplied to the entire stall in the market so that the market electricity needs per day can be met properly without relying on sources of fossil-based electricity. Expected output of waste eco bank welfare level is rising, especially traders by way of improving the health of the market traders with good waste management, as well as rising economic standard of the people with minimize costs used to pay for the use of electricity and replaced by saving enough waste to Eco-waste banks.

Keywords: Electrical, Energy, Market, Traders, Waste