The Concept of Development by Making Use of Waste Plastic Bottles in the Pojok Village in Central Java Province

This programs is an effort to utilize plastic bottle waste to become a container of viticulture planting media with external productsin the form of a vertical garden and hanging plant garden. Starting from the abundance of used plastic bottles buried in the garbagebank of Pojok village and the existence of plant nurseries by the community and added enthusiasm and community participationin building the village. The object of this service was the people of Pojok village Central Java Province. This service programaims to increase public awareness in utilizing used plastic bottles that were previously only sold and as an effort to improvethe agro-tourism opportunities. The method used in this activity is Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). PRA is an approachmethod in the process of empowerment and increasing community participation. The Pojok village community will be activelyinvolved in identifying problems, prioritizing the problems to be resolved, making alternative solutions to problems, planningand implementing programs. In addition, the community is also involved in program evaluation. The analytical method is tomeasure changes in the knowledge and behavior of the pretest and posttest design using the Wilcoxon test. At the end it can beconcluded that the program can be the best solution in utilizing the former plastic bottles into a park as well as an effort to makepeople aware and motivate the people in Pojok Village to be more creative in using former plastic bottles.