This paper presents a review of solid waste management problems, with a particular focus on the household waste management through community participation in waste bank activity problems. Waste, especially solid waste is a problem that will continue to exist. Waste is generated by human’s effort to fulfil their needs of life. Solid waste that continues to accumulate in the environment will cause negative impact which can interfere with human life itself. One of the example is the outbreak of a disease that lowers the level of public health. The negative impact will affect our environment, social, and economy aspect. Until now, public awareness of the importance of processing waste is still very low. This is due to several factors such as economic conditions, education, and social attitudes of the society itself. Nowadays, every country in this world try to do solid waste management because it’s effect to humanity. One of the efforts to assist in the case of solid waste management is by the existence of waste bank. Waste bank is expected to be a sustainable solution to overcome the existing waste problems in the society. Society can get several benefits from waste bank because not only reduce the existing solid waste but also can improve the economic quality of the society with the payment system. The payment system is to exchange waste from society with some payments. The factors that affect the sustainability of waste banks are Awareness, knowledge, equipment, support, and infrastructure.