Tangerang trash increases after flood

TANGERANG: Following the recent floods, Tangerang's garbage output has increased from 1,200 cubic meters per day to 2,100 cubic meters, an official from Tangerang municipality said.

"We're currently facing difficulties transporting the trash, as our garbage trucks do not have enough capacity to take it to Rawa Kucing dump," the municipality's Sanitation Agency Chief, Daryanto, told Antara on Sunday.

He said that the agency had only 100 trucks, which normally coped with a total daily load of 1,200 cubic meters of trash.

He added that drivers were having to work over time to transport the additional garbage to the Rawa Kucing dump in the Batuceper district of the municipality.

He said that some housing complexes, such as Cileduk Indah, one of the areas worst affected by the recent floods, had asked the agency for assistance in transporting the garbage. But he said that some complexes were having to wait for flood waters to recede before attempting to clear and transport garbage deposited by the floods. -- JP