Tangerang to transform garbage into electricity

The Jakarta Post Tangerang

In collaboration with a British consultancy company, the Tangerang regental administration plans to use garbage to generate electrical power.

Regent Ismet Iskandar said on Saturday that the company has been conducting a feasibility study for the project, which would be operational in two years time.

"We hope that everything goes according to plan. We have to be patient because the project won't materialize for at least two years, and even reaching that stage won't be easy," he added.

The regent said the administration had reached several agreements with the foreign company. This included the administration providing land for a processing plant, which could accommodate 2,000 tons of garbage per day.

"The company will provide the technology and machines and finance the construction of the processing plant. It will be authorized to manage the site for 15 years," he said.

Afterward, Ismet added, the plant would be managed by the administration.

Meanwhile, head of garbage management at the Tangerang Sanitation Agency said the regency produces 1,500 tons of garbage per day but only 45 percent of it could be transported to the two dumps in Jatiwaringin in Mauk district and Pasir Muncang in Jayanti district.

"The rest of the garbage is piling up at temporary dumps in 26 districts as we lack the transportation to deliver it," he said.

He said the administration had 81 garbage trucks but needs at least 150 to transport all of the regency's garbage to the dumps.