Penentuan Prioritas Produk Berbahan Limbah Kopi Menggunakan Metode AHP di Sub DAS Cikamiri, Garut, Jawa Barat

Abstract

The suboptimal management of coffee waste affected a significant challenge because the coffee waste is often discarded without being utilized optimally. As a long-term impact, this can cause environmental pollution and loss of economic opportunities from coffee waste. A similar case occurred in the Cikamiri Sub Watershed, Garut, West Java. So it needed to be carried out by applying coffee waste to potential products such as cascara tea, liquid organic fertilizer, and bio-briquettes, but the product priority is not yet known. So that, this study aims to determine the priority for processing coffee waste into high-value products, such as cascara tea, liquid organic fertilizer (POC), and bio-briquettes using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) method in the Sub DAS Cikamiri, Garut, West Java. AHP was chosen for its ability to handle multi-criteria decision-making in a structured manner. The criteria used in this study include labor availability, investment cost, high market value, and material availability. The result showed that cascara tea (prevalence value of 68.6%) was the highest-priority product, followed by liquid organic fertilizer (prevalence value of 20.7%) and bio-briquettes (prevalence value of 10.6%). This study indicated that cascara tea had high market potential, while liquid organic fertilizer and bio-briquettes can be developed by considering environmental impact and sustainability. This research provides strategic recommendations to optimize coffee waste utilization, focusing primarily on cascara tea production to enhance economic value and positive environmental impacts.