Four waste plants to be built

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