This presentation investigates the increasing popularity of zero waste movement and efforts towards sustainability motored by urban middle-class communities in Indonesia. It investigates efforts such as the Trash Bank initiated by housewives in housing communities in urban Jakarta and initiatives by women and housewives in Malang and Jogjakarta. The presentation looks at the motivations, narrative strategies, and community organizing that reveal the anxieties of urban middle class towards environmental issues in their living spaces. Paying attention to the middle-class often hailed as initiators and change-makers in the Indonesian economy, the presentation helps understand the attitude and behavior of the urban middle-class, their awareness about the role they play, and their hope for the urban spaces they lived in.