Submitted
2022 Solv[ED] Youth Innovation Challenge

Bebas Sampah ID (BSID)

Team Leader
Dita Silviani
Solution Overview
Solution Name
Bebas Sampah ID (BSID)
One-line solution summary.

BSID is a digital platform that encourage people and local community in tackling the solid waste management issues through the participatory movement based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) system.

Elevator pitch
What is your solution?

Indonesia has ranked 2nd as the worst disaster of landfill landslide in history causes the most polluting country to the oceans. In 2020, Indonesia produces 67,8 tons of waste annually, while in 2019, 32% of the waste ended up unmanaged in an illegal dumping landfill. To tackle this problem, Bebassampah.ID is available to solve the waste management issues through the participatory movement based on the ICT system. This movement includes collaboration among the local community, multi-stakeholders, government, and society.
BSID, a nonprofit organization that was already existed in 2014, has strong grassroots networks in 34 provinces, were the main programs such as;
1) encourage the grassroots movement and mobilize multi-stakeholders to act on Zero Waste Indonesia activities through using the ICT system platform
2) annual gathering, which delivers an impactful and sustainable grassroots online movement
BSID aims to promote the decentralized waste management system by empowering the informal sectors of the community-based waste managers, such as waste banks, intermediate recycling facilities, waste collectors, to scavengers. This initiative provides solutions to environmental and economic sectors at the same time by expanding the community-based market and improving the income through the selling of waste and used goods as their commodities.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

BSID offers to solve the problem is to overcome the waste management issues, especially in Indonesia regions as a country that produces 67,8 tons of waste annually and 32% of the unmanaged waste that ended up in an illegal dumping landfill.
As a digital platform that focuses on waste issues through the participatory movement based on the ICT, BSID has collaborated with local communities, multi-stakeholders, government, and society in scope to raise awareness about waste problems.
Jamboree is a grassroots movement for Zero Waste Indonesia activities such as mapping the illegal dumping on-site, supporting the waste clearing in tourism areas, conducting an annual gathering to strengthen the collaboration, and sharing the information or knowledge of waste management among them.
Furthermore, BSID commits to facilitate the public to report the illegal dumping sites they found and marks where the sites are. The location and the number of waste will be processed and calculated using an ICT system portal as a piece of real-time data information that will be easily accessible by everyone. This initiative will support local government institutions where their data is not being up-to-date information to be deserved access by the broadened public.
On the other hand, we want to encourage the community in developing the sustainability market by using waste materials to transform them into used goods and quality products. This process will towards creating a circular economy in a sustainability framework.

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

The waste issue has been a crucial problem for people, including households, young people, companies, even the government has got serious about this issue for many years. The major of the people don't know about managing solid waste well based on the appropriate procedures. Moreover, they don't understand making a circular economy that can support their profit by recycling waste into used-goods materials.
So, here BSID has come for a reason. BSID is a digital platform that stimulates the participatory movement, used for a wide range of ages, including households, young generations, multi-stakeholders, and governmental institutions in collaboration cooperation in taking action for waste management issues. BSID that encourages a participatory approach will assist them in managing the waste through our integrated system named ICT-based technology and knowledge information sharing through our community or online discussion. Furthermore, it will also help people in developing the market target through creating used goods from waste materials in a process, so that they can increase their profit in a circular and sustainable economy in life.

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

First, we researched waste management issues and how this issue impacts climate change globally, even though it is also a universal problem of human life. In the second step, we surveyed through intensive interviews for communities group ranging from children, adolescents, and adult people about their perspectives of waste problems. After we got the result of the survey, then we made this result into numeric data about the people's interest in waste issues and how much their knowledge can affect to create a better life. We also have tried to understand what people need to overcome this issue by themselves by providing assets, services, market developments, and other features that can support people of varying ages to manage their wastes. Furthermore, we are forming a particular group of the community named Zero Waste Ranger as a voluntary unit and also as a brand ambassador in delivering the message of our campaign among the people in society.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?
  • Taking action to combat climate change and its impacts (Sustainability)
Our solution's stage of development:
  • Growth: An organization with an established product, service, or business model rolled out in at least one community, which is poised for further growth
Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

As a non-profit organization that had appeared in 2014, BSID has actively impacted people's lives by organizing the programs for seven years, particularly the waste management issues. Those have brought us to the growth stage in processes, and we are still looking for creative ideas that can thoroughly help people in practice and effort to increase the number of our asset features.

To support the growth of the projects, BSID has developed various programs that involve Zero Waste Ranger in action and society in general as a front liner in changing the future world. At the first time of BSID's establishing, it had made collaboration among the association such as with the Association of Environmental Engineering Alumni of the Bandung Institute of Technology (IATL ITB), the Association of Sustainable Earth Conservation Yaksa (YPBB), and the Greeneration Foundation (GF) in 2014. We also received the Ford Foundation grant in 2014 and the YSEALI grant in 2020 as our funding and financial supports

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:
Bandung, Bandung City, West Java, Indonesia
Team Lead:
Fahrian Yovantra, Head of Programs at Greeneration Foundation
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Solution Team:
Dita Silviani
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