Various worthless wastes are transformed into various handicrafts with high selling values.Initially, it was not easy to do it in the midst of the scorn of the people.Pandi Mulyana (38 years old), washes used baby diapers.These diapers are used as materials to make various valuable products for sale in their galleries and workshops, in Babakan Asta Village, Rancaekek Wetan Village, Rancaekek District, Bandung Regency, West Java, Thursday (2/6/2022).(Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)Printing used baby diapers into flower pots or vases.Pandi Mulyana (38 years old) has been working on waste recycling in Rancaekek since 2019. (Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)Pandi Mulyana watered the plants planted in pots with used diapers.Pandi produces various art items from various types of waste.(Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)Not only pots or flower vases, Pandi Mulyana makes painting frames made from waste.This frame is equipped with pots, aquarium and other partitions.(Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)Pandi Mulyana poses among his various works of art based on trash.(Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)Pandi Mulyana's breakthrough with his trash crafts was carried out through an exhibition on the edge of the rice fields last week, on Jalan Walini.This road was full of illegal polling stations.Pandi and family clean it.(Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)On Jalan Walini, at least 100 art items are exhibited.All of them are made from diapers, mattresses, carpets, masks, and other types of trash.(Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)An art installation made from trash exhibited by Pandi Mulyana on Jalan Walini.(Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)Hundreds of works of art from trash fill the walls of the Pandi Mulyana gallery in Babakan Asta Village, Rancaekek Wetan Village, Rancaekek District, Bandung Regency, West Java, Thursday (2/6/2022).(Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)Pandi Mulyana shows art products made from diapers or used baby diapers in his gallery, Babakan Asta Village, Rancaekek Wetan Village, Rancaekek District, Bandung Regency.(Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)Pandi Mulyana's cold hands changed the face of Babakan Asta Village, Rancaekek Wetan Village, Rancaekek District, Bandung Regency.The village substation was also decorated with artistic ornaments from trash.(Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)Pandi Mulyana colors his art.Pandi hopes that his village can become a tourist destination like Saung Angklung Udjo.(Photo: Prima Mulia/BandungBergerak.id)BandungBergerak.id - Pandi Mulyana (38 years old), without hesitation washes used baby diapers as materials for making various valuable products at his gallery and workshop in Babakan Asta Village, Rancaekek Wetan Village, Rancaekek District, Bandung Regency, West Java, Thursday (2 /6/2022 ) ago.In Pandi's hands, disposable diapers that end up in the trash have become various arts and crafts.He cleans one by one the used diapers he picks up from several trash cans around his village.In the small stream behind his house, he wallows almost every day with used baby diapers full of dirt.In addition to baby diapers, he also makes handicraft products from used clothes and used masks.Pandi then showed how to make decorative products such as flower pots, aquariums, and a kind of partition measuring 100 cm x 150 cm with two or 3 flower pots on the sides.First he forms a diaper sheet that has been smeared with cement in a mold to dry and harden.The texture of the diaper makes the details of the product so artistic.Finally he colored the pot.To add to the appeal, several pots are put together in one partition which has also been colored and painted.These partition walls are also made of sheets of used diapers and masks.The surrounding environment in Babakan Asta Village is now decorated with artistic ornaments by Pandi.In some corners of the village decorated with paintings from waste diapers, masks, and clothes.Flower pots made from waste also add to the beauty of the village.Even the multi-purpose substation at the mouth of the village is lined with ornaments from used diapers.Until now, Pandi has recycled about 1 ton of used baby diaper waste in his village since it was first started in early 2019. This man nicknamed the diapers man processes baby diaper waste into flower vases, paintings, bonsai replicas, and fish aquariums with prices ranging between 150,000-750,000 rupiah per fruit.The fruit of Pandi's hard work stems from his concern when the village road to his village, namely Jalan Walini which divides rice fields and settlements is filled with garbage that was thrown away by residents in 2018. The local government had no solution and chose to raise their hands on the pretext that there was no budget. .Jalan Walini has become a wild polling station.Pandi with his relatives and father, Eman (60 years), finally intervened.Only the three of them moved the garbage that had piled up on the side of the road into the middle of the road.The goal is that the garbage is run over by vehicles to dry, then they will collect it to be burned.This effort reaped the scorn of the residents and local village government.It was considered unreasonable.Pandi was unmoved, he continued his efforts so that garbage would not pile up on the streets too much.The idea of ​​​​making a craft was sparked when he saw so much waste of baby diapers that couldn't be recycled.A year later Pandi started his efforts to recycle baby diapers and masks, and he even recycles mattresses, carpets, and clothes that were all collected from the garbage disposal, into artistic products that have economic value.“I don't sell these products, because if the orientation was initially trade, once our merchandise is empty, we will definitely stop and stop production.That's why my initial goal was to raise people's awareness of their environment,” said Pandi.These creative products are only shared, whoever wants to take it.There are some who want to exchange it for money, but again that is not the goal.Now, it's only in 2022 that the art products stored in the Garbage Gallery are starting to be priced.“I still have a dream, our village has a garbage gallery and an art studio, maybe one day this village can be like Saung Angklung Udjo.Schools or anyone can come to learn about environmental conservation wrapped in art,” said Pandi.The existence of the “crazy” man Rancaekek and his colleagues from the art studio in Babakan Asta resulted in an exhibition being held on the side of the village road, which used to be illegal polling stations that used to pollute the village.Not far from the level railway crossing near Haur Pugur Station.Around 100 pieces of art adorn the edge of the village road, framing the view of the rice fields and dense villages behind it.Villagers and environmental activists came to provide support and appreciation, the children enthusiastically participated in the workshop on making pots made from used baby diapers.As Pandi said, commercial value is next, the main thing is to open people's awareness of the environment around them.Text and Photo: Prima MuliaBandungBergerak.id accepts with open arms essays from anyone, regardless of background.Instead, we hope that this site will become a forum for the exchange of ideas.There are several things that can be used as a guide, namely:BandungBergerak.id will give awards and certificates to the authors of two selected essays every month.Determination of the selected essay, based on the quality of writing and level of readability, is the full authority of the Editor.By submitting an article to BandungBergerak.id, the author agrees that the Editor has the authority to edit the article.As much as possible we will provide feedback for each author who has submitted their essay.Especially those whose essays can't be loaded yet.