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Jakarta urges schools to establish waste banks

The Jakarta Environment Agency is urging schools to establish waste banks in a bid cut down on the city’s trash volume

News Desk (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Wed, June 14, 2017

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Jakarta urges schools to establish waste banks Children pass Gendong river, which is clogged by garbage, in Pluit, North Jakarta, on March 16. (JP/Seto Wardhana.)

The Jakarta Environment Agency is urging schools to establish waste banks in a bid cut down on the city’s trash volume.

Agency head Isnawa Aji said 100 schools in five municipalities have already installed waste banks. However, the number should be increased to cope with the capital’s growing trash problem.

"We will push all schools in Jakarta to establish waste banks," he said on Tuesday as quoted by beritajakarta.id.

A waste bank is a collection point for trash, in which residents can drop their pre-sorted household waste in return for cash. The waste is divided into organic and non-organic items. Organic waste gets turned into compost, while non-organic waste is divided further into three categories: plastic, paper, and bottles and metal.

"The waste bank concept should be thought to school-aged children, so that they will have an awareness about [Jakarta’s] waste issue," he said. (dmr)

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