City to cunstruct two new garbage processing plants
City to cunstruct two new garbage processing plants
JAKARTA (JP): The city is to get two new garbage processing
plants in an effort to solve lingering disposal problems.
Head of the City Sanitation Agency, M. Subasir, said yesterday
that the new plants will be in Duri Kosambi, West Jakarta, and
Sunter, North Jakarta.
He said that the new plants will be able to accommodate a
total of 3,800 tons of garbage per day, with the Duri Kosambi
accommodating about 2,800 tons of garbage per day and the Sunter
plant processing about 1,000 tons.
"Currently, the agency has only one plant in Cacing, East
Jakarta, which handles about 1,000 tons of garbage per day, while
the city produces 6,000 tons of garbage per day," Subasir told
reporters, adding that the remaining 5,000 tons are sent directly
to the final dumping site in Pulo Gebang, Bekasi, without being
processed.
"The new plants are expected to overcome this problem because
they are much closer than the dump in Bekasi or the waste
processing center in Cacing," Subasir said.
Subasir said that the agency is cooperating with private
company PT Intan Maskota Maru in constructing the Duri Kosambi
garbage plant. The construction is scheduled for completion next
year.
The planned Sunter project will be mostly funded by the
Japanese government. "The project cost is estimated to be 3,327
million yen," he said.
"When the two plants are completed garbage problems can be
overcome, with only 700 tons sent to Pulo Gebang waste dump,"
Subasir said.
The agency has been complaining that the city's sanitation
program is being hindered by many problems, especially
transportation.
The agency is operating 729 trucks, while ideally, 1,300
trucks are needed to transport garbage from all over the city to
Pulo Gebang every day.
The agency said the number of trucks is therefore too small to
cope with the garbage produced by the city's nine million people.
Many residents still prefer dumping garbage into rivers and
gutters than disposing of it properly. Records show that more
than 4, 300 cubic meters of waste is dumped into gutters, rivers
and other improper places each day.
Subasir said that the plant will use sophisticated technology
to separate organic and inorganic garbage.
"In further development the plants will also be equipped with
recycling machines which will process the garbage into
fertilizer," he said. (yns)