A Japanese company has set up a waste treatment plant in the Indonesian island of Bali to help tackle the country’s dire waste management problem.
The World Bank reports that Indonesia is ranked fifth globally in the volume of municipal solid waste with about 70 percent being sent to landfills. Many Indonesian cities lack waste treatment facilities.
Amid these circumstances, a company based in Toyama City in central Japan has put in a treatment facility in Bali’s Badung Prefecture. The plant will turn waste into compost for farming and other purposes. A completion ceremony was held on Tuesday.
Ishibashi Ryuji, president of the company, says he would be happy if the idea that waste should be turned into a resource spreads in Indonesia.
Badung’s landfill site has already exceeded its capacity. The new facility is expected to reduce waste disposal.