Integrating Solid Waste Management and Buddhist Principles to Create Buddhist Innovations for Solid Waste Management in Communities

Abstract

The objectives of this research article were 1) to study the principles of solid waste management according to the principles of the Pollution Control Department and Buddhist principles that promoted solid waste management; and 2) to integrate solid waste management principles and Buddhist principles to create Buddhist innovations for solid waste management in communities. It was a documentary research, a type of textual analysis, collecting data from Tipitaka, textbooks, analyzing data using philosophical and integrative methods. The research results found that 1) the results of the study of solid waste management principles and Buddhist principles that promoted solid waste management found that there were 4 solid waste management principles, namely solid waste separation, solid waste management according to the 3 Rs principles, i.e. attractive front of house, beautiful house, clean city. The Buddhist principles that promoted solid waste management included the factors of Sammaditthi, Iddhipada, and Sammappadhana. When the solid waste management principles and Buddhist principles were analyzed using philosophical methods, it was found that the solid waste management principles was flawed in the sense that it only taught people to manage solid waste but did not instill environmental awareness in people, even though people's ability to manage solid waste was influenced by their awareness, but the Buddhist principles that promoted solid waste management were flawed in that they were outdated principles because the Buddha taught them over two thousand years ago. If they were not applied in today's society, the Buddhist principles will not be beneficial to today's society; 2) the results of integrating solid waste management principles and Buddhist principles to create Buddhist innovations for solid waste management in communities found that the integration of solid waste management principles and Buddhist principles according to the integration method of Phra Phrombandit (Prayoon Dhammacitto) was to adjust Buddhism to science, resulting in Buddhist innovations for solid waste management in communities.