As we know, waste banks are an effective way to reduce the ongoing accumulation of waste. This program can be a solution to overcome the waste problems in big cities, such as Jakarta.

Jakarta will become a global city full of millions of charms

Referring to the explanation above, the Setu Urban Village, Cipayung, East Jakarta intensifies the waste sorting program by optimizing the role of a waste bank.

Setu Urban Village Head, Dwi Widiastuti said it was aimed at reducing the volume of waste thrown at the Bantar Gebang Landfill, Bekasi, West Java, and also to improve residents' economy through the use of waste or used goods.

"We also use used goods in the form of gallons for plant pots in the urban farming area in the sub-district office yard," she expressed, on the sidelines of launching United Setu Waste Bank SIPLAH (sampah indah pilah lah), Sunday (12/15) in the urban village office's yard.

To make it optimal, she sent 130 personnel to the field, consisting of ASN, PPSU, PKK cadre, Dasawisma, and RT/RW administrator. "It is not only in the urban village office yard, but also at RT/RW and the surrounding areas," she continued.

Her party also activated the planting of various family medicinal plants, vegetables, and fruit in urban farming areas by using pots from used gallons of mineral water in urban farming areas, including a nutritional pool with hundreds of catfish seeds.

"They (catfish) will be harvested together on December 18. Predictably, it will produce 40 kilograms," she concluded.

She added optimizing waste bank and urban farming is part of a series of activities to welcome the five centuries of Jakarta in the forthcoming June 2027.

"Jakarta will become a global city full of millions of charms, that's why it must be supported by a clean, comfortable, and beautiful environment," she stated.