Plastic waste management in rural areas remains an unsystematic environmental challenge in Indonesia. Krasak Hamlet, Pancakarya Village, Ajung District, Jember Regency faces a waste emergency: no adequate disposal site, no village regulation, and low community awareness. This research-based community service (PkM-BR) applies Participatory Action Research (PAR) integrated with a three-level intervention framework—individual, community, and institutional. Activities involved ±80 residents across four cyclical stages. Results: 83.3% of FGD participants understood the sanitation–stunting correlation; 80% committed to waste sorting by day 7; five critical waste sites were fully cleaned; and the village head issued a written commitment to allocate Village Fund resources for waste facilities and draft a Village Regulation. This programme contributes to SDGs Goal 11 and Goal 3.
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