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Depok waste production increases by 150 tons ahead of Idul Fitri
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Waste piles up at an illegal dump site in Limo, Depok on Oct. 6, 2015. (Tempo/ Imam Hamdi)
The post-fasting Idul Fitri celebrations have produced an increase in waste in Depok, West Java, according to a local official.
Cipayung landfill in East Jakarta recorded a 100-150 ton increase of waste production from Depok in the week leading up to Idul Fitri.
“The waste is dominated by food waste. Our staff must work during the holiday to collect all of this garbage,” Cipayung landfill unit head Iyay Gumilar said on Monday.
Nearly a week ahead of Idul Fitri, Depok’s waste volume reached 850 tons from some 700 to 750 tons on normal days.
“We expect to see a constant increase [in garbage] for another week after the two-day holiday. We have been working extra hard to remove waste stacks from the side of the roads,” Iyay said, adding that workers made their rounds to pick up trash six or seven times a day from five times on regular days.
He said the waste volume in Cipayung landfill had reached over capacity, with mounds reaching nearly 30 meters in height.
He urged the Depok administration to open a new landfill with a daily capacity of at least 500 tons to ease the burden at Cipayung landfill.
“Depok has a waste processing unit and a waste bank, but they can only process less than 100 tons of waste a day,” he said as quoted by tempo.co. (dra)
