Community empowerment is one element that enables a community can develop themselvesand achieve progress. This study aims to describe the process of community empowerment and benefits in the waste management system through the principle of 3R waste banks that are in the TrashBank Pelita Harapan village Ballaparang RW 04. Type of research is descriptive qualitative. Data collected by observation, interviews (interview), and documentation. Testing and analysis of data is doneby triangulation of data and classifying data is systematically then outlines the existing data in thefield that describes the form of community empowerment in the process of waste management. Theresults showed that community empowerment is used as a method in conducting waste managementthrough waste bank system has increased in terms of the quality of the environment is clean and appears to be more community participation has increased . It was concluded that the descriptive stageto empower people is not easy and fast but requires a systematic process that starts from the stageof socialization, planning, implementation, and evaluation tools are required to analyze the success ofcommunity empowerment through the bank system trash.Keywords : Community Empowerment, Waste Management, Waste Bank, 3R