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Bandung claims reduced waste with ‘no sorting, no pickup’
Starting on Oct. 28 this year, the Bandung city administration implemented its “no sorting, no pickup” policy, with sanitation workers no longer picking up unsorted collected waste.
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The Sarimukti landfill is seen on Feb. 7, 2020, in West Bandung regency, West Java. (Antara/Raisan Al Farisi)
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he Bandung city administration claimed that it has reduced waste, with a declining number of garbage trucks arriving at the Sarimukti final disposal site (TPA) in the past two weeks after the city implemented its “no sorting, no pickup” waste management system.
Bandung city acting secretary Dharmawan said by the second week of November, the landfill only received around 153 truckloads of waste daily, down from a daily average of 174 in October.
The dump trucks commonly used for transporting waste have a capacity of around 25 cubic meters.
“The decrease clearly shows that sorting waste at its source and then managing it in clusters has shown results,” Dharmawan said on Saturday, according to the city administration website on Tuesday.
He said the key to reducing landfill waste was the city’s policy of “no sorting, no pickup”, which means unsorted waste does not go to the landfill.
He also credited monitoring at lower administrative areas with helping implement the cluster-based waste management system.
He said the city administration hopes that by the end of November, the Sarimukti landfill will only receive up to 140 truckloads of waste per day.
