ABSTRACT
Through the issuance of Local Regulation No. 3 of 2013 on Waste Management a new regulation on was imposed that requires households to sort their trash. Trash banks have been established and provide incentives to the public to sort their household garbage and deposit the inorganic trash into trash banks. However, not all households have become members and participated in these trash bank activities. This study aims to identify the factors that influence the selective waste sorting behaviour of households in the trash bank communities. These factors include the respondents’ knowledge and perceptions about Reduce-Reuse-Recycle (3R), household characteristics, community characteristics and characteristics of the trash banks. The survey was conducted on households in trash bank communities, for both trash bank members and non-members, and the heads of the trash banks. The results show that knowledge, environmental priorities, membership of the trash banks, level of household participation in the community, period of trash bank establishment, and education level of trash bank heads affect the behaviour of household waste sorting.
