New technology to process trash

New technology to process trash

TANGERANG: A joint American-European investor group
represented by PT Kusuma has offered the Tangerang administration
a sophisticated technology to process garbage into useful
products such as cement raw materials, electricity and pure
water.

According to Mirza Sukri, director of PT Kusuma, a local
private company appointed by the foreign investors to operate the
project should the administration accept, the company could
recycle some 950 tons of garbage daily from Tangerang and turn it
into ash that was good for cement manufacture and road asphalt as
well as, electrical power and pure water.

However, Sukri declined to elaborate on the details of the
electricity power and pure water during his presentation before
the Bappeda officials in Tigaraksa last Thursday.

This technology requires plenty of water and therefore such a
project must be located near a beach, he said, adding that such
technology would be the first of its kind in the country.

He said that to recycle garbage into the useful products, the
company would provide three kinds of machines that could recycle
300 tons, 500 tons and 950 tons of garbage daily.

According to him, such technology had been applied in Japan,
Italy and Germany.

However, The Tangerang Development Planning Board (Bappeda)
chief Suryana said that the administration needed to conduct a
feasibility study on the recycling technology before deciding to
accept it.--JP