Optimizing rural solid waste management in Kalikuto village.

Indonesia has 83.820 villages spreading in rural areas. Various problems moreover related to rural waste management are topics that need to be discussed. The available data on solid waste characterization, quantification, and rural solid waste management (RSW) is still limited. Therefore, this paper aims to provide typical rural solid waste management (RSWM) based on a study in Kalikuto Village, Central Java, Indonesia. The survey indicates that the generation rate of RSW is 0.55 kg/person/day, with about 71% of RSW generation being dominated by food and garden waste. Meanwhile, plastic, paperboard, and residue (metals, rubber, textiles, glasses, and other materials) constitute 16%, 7%, and 6%, respectively. The RSWM problems mostly are related to limited facilities and infrastructure, lack of environmental awareness, and ineffective regulations. In this paper, some factors that should be considered to improve RSWM include providing integrated waste processing facilities, educating local communities to classify and recycle waste and designing an applicative biological waste treatment such as composting or vermicomposting. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]