Collaboration at Bumi Cikoneng Regency

Since July 2025, Simpai Institute has been engaging in a non-formal collaboration with the Bumi Cikoneng Regency community to strengthen local, community-based waste management systems.

This collaboration focuses on mapping overcapacity waste issues, creating educational content on household waste sorting, and developing actionable recommendations for residents and area managers.

Initial recommendations include:

The collaboration applies a knowledge-sharing approach that fosters collective awareness and co-created solutions toward a fair, circular, and sustainable waste system.

Key Learnings from the Bumi Cikoneng Regency Collaboration

Since July 2025, mapping activities by Simpai Institute have revealed that waste overcapacity issues in Bumi Cikoneng Regency are closely tied to infrastructure availability and block-level policies.

Most households with two bins remain within safe capacity, while those with only one bin face higher overflow risks—particularly in blocks where local coordinators do not provide additional facilities.

Waste-handling behavior also plays a major role: large materials such as unfolded cardboard boxes significantly increase bin volume.

Demographically, households with children and stay-at-home parents tend to produce more waste than those with lower daily activity levels.

These insights form the basis for targeted interventions, including adding bins in high-risk areas, partnering with local waste banks, and installing biopore systems for organic waste management in November 2025.