Commercialization of Inorganic Waste-based Eco Friendly Creative Products to Improve Living Standard of Women Street Vendors in Cikapundung

Abstract

Bandung is one of the icons or portraits of a rich city both in terms of education and creative human resources. Nevertheless, there is something ironic about this city. Right in the middle of it, there is an urban village which holds poor icon in this city known as flower city. This research designated as an empowerment program with the aim to improve living standards and reduce the amount of inorganic waste by processing them into eco-friendly creative products with an economic and high selling value for the street vendors of Cikapundung riverbank, Bandung, West Java. Based on Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach, the results of this research are to improve living standard and welfare of the poor people by building family's economic independence in generating per capita income in accordance with national welfare standard, to understand and foster the entrepreneurial spirit through caring for the environment, to be able to create creative and innovative results, to be able to overcome environmental problems, to be able to maintain the environmental hygiene through the spirit of concerning for the environment, and also to increase the economic value of creative and innovative products by processing inorganic wastes into valued products to obtain additional earnings. Keywords—inorganic waste; commercialization products; environmental friendly; street vendors; Cikapundung riverbank