PEMBERDAYAAN IBU - IBU RUMAH TANGGA KELOMPOK DAWIS MAWAR IX, KELURAHAN MANISREJO, KECAMATAN TAMAN, KOTA MADIUN MELALUI MANAJEMEN SAMPAH GELAS PLASTIK MENJADI PRODUK BERNILAI TAMBAH

Abstract

Women as members of the community need attention in terms of empowerment, because women hold a number of central functions in the families, and women can be important economic resources for increasing family income. A group of housewivess living in ten houses close to each other called Dasawisma (dawis) Mawar IX living at RT 22, RW 7, Manisrejo Village, Taman Subdistrict, Madiun City, werethe community empowerment partnersof the Accounting Study Program of Widya MandalaCatholic University of Madiun. Most of the partners were housewives and hadthe Garbage Bank activitiesbut they did not make the wastebecomehigher selling products. Therefore, the housewives wanted trainingin order to use the waste likethe plastic glass into productshaving higher selling values compared to the price of garbage in TrashBank. The purpose of the community service (Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat/PkM)was: 1) to help create skills and comfort in the life of the community through entrepreneur processing plastic waste that piled up into more valuable products, 2) to help develop the housewife group to be economically self-sufficient through the production of plastic glass waste with the provision of plastic glassware processing tools, 3) to help the housewife group determine the selling price of products from plastic glass waste. The targeted output of PkM activity was: 1) products, namely the ones made from plastic glass waste which were processed into more valuable products, 2) the method, which was to provide modules in the form of power point and to give education about financial accounting, namely the method of determining the selling price of products from plastic glass waste and methods of marketing them conventional and modern ways. The implementation method used was the discussion and training. It was expected that this activity was able toreally improve the welfare of the surrounding community.