BANDUNG, unpas.ac.id – Alumni Association (Ikatan Keluarga Alumni, IKA) of Environmental Engineering (Teknik Lingkungan, TL) Department along with its Students’ Community (Himpunan Mahasiswa Teknik Lingkungan (HMTL), Faculty of Engineering Universitas Pasundan have recently handed over the equipment for maintaining organic trash with Black Soldier Fly (BSF) to the people of Desa Kasomalang Kulon, Subang District, Bandung.
This is part of Training Holistic Programs and Village Empowerment (Program Holistik Pembinaan and Pemberdayaan Desa, PHP2D) from HMTL with the theme of “Implementatsi Sirkular Ekonomi Pengelolaan Sampah Organik dengan Memaksimalkan Pemilahan dari Sumber serta Pengolahan Sampah Organik Menggunakan Lava BSF dan Komposter Skala Komunal di Desa Kasomalang”.
IKA and Team of Unpas PHP2D HMTL were kindly and directly welcomed by Head of Desa Kasomalang Kulon, H. Amirudin, head of neighbourhood and local residents.
Head of Unpas IKA TL, Warso Wijaya ST., stated that the purpose of PHP2D is to improve people’s knowledge related to maintaining the trash, environmental cleanliness and public health.
“Alhamdulillah, the enthusiasm is high, since it is important and needed by the residents,” he explained, on Wednesday, 5 January 2022.
Warso also continued that by implementing the program and handing over the equipment, it is expected to be useful, both for local residents and Universitas Pasundan itself.
“We hope, it would be useful for the society and Unpas as well, especially for Faculty of Engineering and Environmental Engineering Department,” he continued.
He himself also emphasized that IKA along HMTL will also commit to accompanying the program which will be sustainable in order to improve Desa Kasomalang Kulon.
“We hope we could create new innovation in supporting the progress in the village. We will also synergize with Unpas HMTL in monitoring and observing any kind of program updates,” he confirmed.
Head of PHP2D Team of Environmental Engineering Department, Nurdian Hari Anfasha said that the program offered is expected to optimize the potential owned by Desa Kasomalang Kulon. Even more, organic trash in the village is quite high compared to its inorganic ones.
“Organic trash in Desa Kasomalang Kulon has not been maintained as optimal as it would be; therefore, there needs to be a proper usage to empower and improve people’s income involved in this program,” he said.
The result of organizing and maintaining the trash does not only take huge impact to the environment, but also open the opportunity for increasing people’s income in Desa Kasomalang Kulon. With this, they are also able to sell the products such as compost fertilizer and BSF maggot larvae which can be used for feeding animals and farming catfish.
“The problem is trash operational management, whose maintenance is only using a plastic bag without sortation, then it is directly thrown away. Schedule for picking up the trash is only 2-3 times a week,” he said.
This program creates trash reduction up to 80-90 percent, forms a team for organizing the trash, sorts the trash, organizes a place for BSF larvae and composter, as well as creates a machine for chopping the trash with a capacity of 200 kilograms of organic trash per day.
He also hoped that by this equipment of using BSF created by Unpas PHP2D HMTL team, it could provide a solution to the problems which has been occurring in the village.
“We hope the unit would be very useful for the society, especially when it comes to maintaining the trash properly; therefore, it could also give better effects in the future,” he hoped.
Previously, the 2021 Unpas PHP2D HMTL has been carrying out since August 2021, starting from program coordination to following up the program, field survey and program implementation.
This program also involved a lot of parties and accompaniment in its implementation, namely from Supervisory teachers Deni Rusmaya, ST., MT., Dean of Faculty of Engineering Dr. Ir. Yusman Taufik, M.P., and Head of Department of Environmental Engineering Dr. Ir. Anni Rochaeni, MT. (Rico)*
