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Waste banks cut down trash volume in Central Jakarta
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Scavengers collect garbage in a landfill in Bantar Gebang, Bekasi, West Java, as a convoy of waste trucks enter the waste treatment facility. (Tempo/-)
Garbage volume in Central Jakarta has decreased by 35 percent thanks to waste bank movement, an official said on Monday.
Central Jakarta municipality’s economic and development assistant Bakwan Ferizan Ginting said on Monday that the existence of almost 400 waste banks in the area had contributed to the reduction of garbage volume from 4,500 cubic meters to 1,600 cubic meters at the trash disposal site (TPA) everyday
“Our target is a waste bank in every community unit [RW]”, Bakwan said at Rawasari integrated waste treatment center (TPST), as quoted by beritajakarta.com.
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He also explained that waste management had to be carried out by citizens so they could get the benefits of the reused waste.
In Rawasari TPST itself, there was a process to recycle organic waste, which could produce up to 100 sacks of organic waste every month.
“There are packs of 3 to 30 kilograms of recycled waste and a lot of people buy them. That’s why increasing the number of waste banks has become our priority,” Bakwan added.
