City to work with private sector on waste recycling
City to work with private sector on waste recycling
JAKARTA (JP): The city administration revealed plans yesterday
to cooperate with a private foundation and a Canadian firm to
recycle garbage.
Assistant to the city secretary in charge of development
affairs, Prawoto S. Danoemihardjo, said the private foundation,
Yayasan Rehabilitasi Prajurit Utama Seroja (Veteran's
Foundation), would cooperate with Canada's Urban Resources
Technologies Incorporation.
"I hope the agreement terms can be solved this year and we can
start recycling next year," he said after meeting the private
investor yesterday.
Under the agreement, the joint venture will open a recycling
factory with a capacity to recycle two million cubic meters of
garbage a day in Pluit, North Jakarta. Urban Resources' recycling
technology will be used to process garbage into building
materials, like bricks and ceramics.
Prawoto said the cooperation would not be too complicated and
the factory would need only an 800-square-meter plot.
The city produces about 25,000 cubic meter of garbage a day.
About 40 percent of this is inorganic.
He said the material produced from the recycled garbage would
reduce the high cost of building houses.
He said cooperation with private sector would not reduce the
essential role of scavengers in the collection of the city's
garbage.
"Scavengers will distribute the garbage to the factory," he
said.
Landfill
Meanwhile a new 100-hectare waste disposal area will be built
in Ciangir village, Legok district, Tangerang, to support the
operation of the landfill at Bantar Gebang, Bekasi.
Head of the City Sanitation Office M. Subasir said yesterday
the new facility would be slightly different from the one in
Bekasi.
He said trees would be planted around the area in a bid to
reduce bad garbage odor.
Subasir said a feasibility study and the construction of the
project were expected to begin after buying the 13.5 hectare-
residential site on the plot.
"With the operation of the new landfill, some of the garbage
which is now sent to Bantar Gebang can be taken to Ciangir.
Hopefully, the office can tackle all of the city's garbage," he
said.
The new dumping area would use the sanitary landfill system
like Bantar Gebang.
With this system the area is excavated to about three or four
meters, installed with equipment to absorb water from garbage,
covered with clay, and finally installed with pipes to transfer
liquid waste to a purification facility.
The operation of the new facility is also expected to reduce
heavy congestion around Bantar Gebang which is caused by the line
up of around 2,500 garbage trucks.
The existing Bantar Gebang's 108-hectare plot landfill opened
in 1989. It takes 21,500 cubic meters of waste daily. It is
projected to be able to take garbage until 2003. (ste/04)