Tabanan Regency's Mandung Landfill to Accept Only Residual Waste Starting May 2026
The Tabanan Regency Government (Pemkab Tabanan) will restrict operations at the Mandung Final Disposal Site (TPA) as an effort to optimise source-based waste processing. The plan is for the Mandung TPA to only accept residual waste shipments starting from May 2026.
The Acting Head of the Tabanan Environment Agency (DLH), I Gusti Agung Rai Dwipayana, explained that the policy draft has been socialised to sub-district apparatus within the waste transportation service area. According to him, the policy also aims to anticipate the increasingly crowded conditions at the Mandung TPA.
“All parties present at the initial socialisation, from official villages, customary villages, and regional apparatus organisations (OPD), in principle agree to only dispose of residual waste at the Mandung TPA. This is important so that the burden on the TPA does not become heavier,” said Rai Dwipayana when confirmed by detikBali on Thursday (9/4/2026).
Rai urged Tabanan residents to be more disciplined in sorting and processing waste at the source. He emphasised that unprocessed waste will not be transported to the Mandung TPA.
Currently, he said, the Mandung TPA receives an average of 128 tonnes of waste per day. Waste management at the site is carried out using a terracing system on the waste piles.
“The condition of the Mandung TPA must be a shared concern. Without community involvement in waste processing, this policy will not run optimally,” he added.
The Tabanan DLH, he continued, will reactivate waste banks and reduce, reuse, recycle waste processing sites (TPS3R). Currently, there are 439 registered waste bank units in Tabanan, with only 206 still operational.
There are also five main waste banks, with only two units still active. Meanwhile, for TPS3R, out of 44 registered units, 32 are operating and the rest are inactive.
“We will invite waste bank managers, especially those owned by OPDs, to see examples of processing that are already running well, so they can be implemented more widely,” he concluded.