Community Culture Improvisation Regarding Waste Management Systems and Per Capita Income Increase

Abstract

The contributions of micro, small, and medium enterprises concerning the formation of small and medium enterprise gross regional domestic product are instrumental to achieve a country’s sustainability development goals. Malang is the second-largest city in East Java and the biggest contributor to Indonesia’s provincial gross regional domestic product, with 65% of its food and beverage sector producing an ever-increasing amount of waste. Indeed, its enhancement is not balanced by appropriate waste management, owing to the inhibiting factors stated in the form of variables, to increase the competitiveness of a community and improve its culture with respect to waste management, leading to an increase in the per capita income. This paper adopts a quantitative and descriptive approach to describe the phenomena and conditions pertaining to the research objective, accompanied by quantitative data processing. The primary data collected via surveys is processed, including data on the availability of waste treatment regulations and facilities, along with infrastructure and statistical analyses (as output from the survey results) to provide solutions for increasing the productivity of micro, small, and medium enterprises in Malang.