Jakarta – Trash issues is a homework for the government, people and the nation of Indonesia. In one, day, a garbage dump (Tempat Pembuangan Akhir) can produce 750 tons of waste. That’s juts one garbage dump, try to multiply the number with total of all garbage dump in Jakarta. Could be approximately 1 million tons of household waste generated that must be tackled.

One of the garbage dump that actively tackled waste problem in Depok, West Java is Cipayung garbage dump. An area of 10.8 hectares is actually still  over load to accommodate garbage that is mounting when its only coverage 11 sub-districts with 63 urban village.

It is said by Chief Techinacal officer of Cipayung garbage DUMP, Adang Kurniawan, garbage dump are  only residual waste are sent to the Waste Processing Unit to be fertilized. Meanwhile, non-organis waste are sent to the waste banks to be processed into handicrafts that have economic value. “We have encouraged the segregation of waste from households, so we are very helped in the distribution and processing of waste,” he explained.

Garbage dump that have 37 personnel and garbage fittings (garbage truck, garbage cart, etc) are also providing health services to the community every once a week. Adang said that the publc should have more awareness to trash issues by not littering the trash to the river and start sorting trash from home, and also reducing the use of plastics. In the future, Cipayung garbage dump may have a possibility of coorperating wit stakeholders for waste processing techonology.

Sumber: Independent-Observer.23-29-Maret-2018.Hal_.22-