Rizal Mustansyir, Sonjoruri Budiani Trisakti, Khairul Umam
Abstract. Sustainable development is a discussion and study of people, natural resources and the environment. The human resources become the implementers (input factors) in the development process and the main users, and also the determinants of success. When actions and participation of human in life are unsustainable, the environment, the ecosystem, and humans in the future will become victims. Unsustainable human actions are reflected in the case of disposal of household and industrial waste to the ocean. Irresponsible behaviour has polluted almost all the world’s oceans, even according to the World Economic. Indonesia plays an important role in the pollution of the world’s oceans. The results of research by Jenna Jambeck, a researcher from the University of Georgia in a science journal (2015) stated that Indonesia contributes the second largest number of plastic waste in the world, while the number 1 is The People’s Republic of China. The results of the study were confirmed by marine chemistry and ecotoxicology researchers at the LIPI Oceanographic Research Center (2018), finding that there were 10-20 microplastic particles per kilogram of salt.. Research on microplastic content in salt was carried out in the northern coast of Java, including Pati, Kudus, Demak, and Rembang. LIPI researchers also found anchovies and the like that live in 10 research sites positively contaminated with microplastics. The results showed as many as 58-89% of the fish in the study contained microplastics. In particular, the author proves that there is a habit of disposing of trash in the sea by coastal communities who are not aware of its impact on the sustainability of marine life. One of the evidence from the research data can be found on the north coast of Madura Island, especially in the Coastal Communities of East Legung Village. Such unsustainable actions must be immediately prevented by providing alternative solutions, namely coastal community household waste management through the Waste Bank program, which aims to educate and take action to manage, separate, recycle, sell, and report (related government) household waste to prevent garbage disposal on the beach. Such a simple activity is a hope that contains confidence and optimism that if you want to save the sustainability of the ecosystem or maintain the environment it can only be achieved with concrete actions even though it is very simple. The main spirit of this activity is to provide information that the behaviour of littering in the oceans is an unsustainable and destructive act that not only threatens the life of marine life but also results in extinction and threatens human life.
Keywords: Management, Waste, Coastal Communities, Local Wisdom
