Written by Gilbert Givano The Student of President University in Jakarta, Indonesia Indonesia, holding the title of the world’s 4 th biggest population with around 266 million people (worldometer), has definitely shown signs of improvement in many social and technological aspects. However, with a population that huge, how long can Indonesia be able to sustain all of the waste of her people? The answer is, not long. On average, Indonesian people generates 0.76 kg/person/day of solid waste. With a total of 266 million people, that is equivalent to around 202,000 tons of solid waste per day! To give you a picture of how big that is, it is the same with throwing away 34 adult elephants, every day! But the government must have done something in the past few years’ right? True, in 2002, about 45 units of composting pilot projects were developed under “Western Java Environmental Management Project”, furthermore, the re-setting up of ADIPURA Prog...
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