Four waste plants to be built

JAKARTA: Four garbage processing plants will soon be built in the capital city of Jakarta with the aim of reducing the burden of the city's only garbage dump at Bantar Gebang, Bekasi, which has a capacity of processing nearly six tons of garbage per day, an official said on Wednesday.

"The construction of the four plants, expected to be completed in up to 10 years, is intended to help reduce the burden at the Bantar Gebang garbage dump," said Jakarta sanitation agency head Rama Budi.

The new plants, to be built and financed wholly by the private sector, will be built in South, North, West and East Jakarta, but not in Central Jakarta due to the limited availability of land, he said.

Rama explained that the new plants would be built using a garbage-to-energy concept in which the garbage would be directly processed into electricity.

"It will no longer affect the environment as the garbage packed in containers will directly be processed without necessarily letting it become a huge pile," he said.

The facility, which will be built on 10-hectares of land, will be designed to have a capacity to process 1,000 tons garbage per day, he added. -- Antara