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Garbage recycling startup to help increase tourism competitiveness index
The website offers a pick-up service to houses, for free, and will give you money for your garbage.
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Workers clean debris that stuck in Manggarai Floodgate in South Jakarta, Monday, October 2, 2017. (JP/Seto Wardhana.)
A website called sampahmuda.com was created with the goal of helping people to recycle their garbage.
The website offers a pick-up service to houses, for free, and will give you money for your garbage.
If you want to call for its service, you first need to book a schedule through the website.
However, Sampah Muda only accepts waste in these following categories: HVS paper, newspaper, cardboard, plastic bottle, plastic glass and other plastic.
After Sampah Pemuda picks up your garbage and pays you, it will deliver them to the two waste management companies that Sampah Pemuda is partnering with.
Recently, the startup company did a collaboration with Indonesian Charms Generation (GenPI) Central Java chapter for the community’s weekly event called Karetan Market. Don Kardono, tourism minister's special staff in media and communication, said that sampahmuda.com creators have the same vision as the ministry, to develop environmental sustainability.
"This is in line with the efforts of "Indonesia Incorporated" to repair the environment pillar in the TTCI (Travel Tourism Competitiveness Index) captured by the World Economic Forum (WEF), hence very important to raise our tourism competitiveness index," he added. (asw)
