SCAVENGERS’ PARTICIPATION IN MAINTAINING ENVIRONMENTAL CLEANLINESS AT THE LANDFILLS OF SARIMUKTI CIPATAT DISTRICT WEST BANDUNG REGENCY
Introduction: From the result of preliminary study and observation result done by the researcher on 27-28 October 2016, it was found that the lack of scavengers participation in maintaining the cleanliness of the environment, because there is still a lot of garbage that is still scattered is not in place and the lack of programs from the landfills of Sarimukti manager to maintain cleanliness such as doing mutual work or consecrated work. Methods: This study’s purpose is to get a depiction of the participation of scavengers in maintaining environmental cleanliness at the landfills ofSarimukti District Cipatat West Bandung regency. The method used in this research is qualitative method with snowball sampling technique. The number of respondents in this study is 12 people consisting of 6 scavengers and 6 landfills of Sarimuktistaff. Results:The results showed that scavengers' knowledge about environmental hygiene is still lacking and their participation in maintaining environmental cleanliness in Sarimukti Landfills according to the perspective of scavengers and the staff is still considered to be lacking. Discussion:We suggest through this research that this can be used as an input material to get the idea to be more active in providing knowledge about the ways of correct waste processing, recycling, and also knowledge about the importance of maintaining the cleanliness of the environment. We hope that this research can then be developed into another qualitative research about the right program for scavenger participation in maintaining environmental cleanliness.