Bantul Destroys 25 Tons Of Garbage A Day Using The ITF System, Regent: Belongs To The DIY Provincial Government

The Regent of Bantul in the Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY), Abdul Halim Muslih, said that the Intermediate Treatment Facility (ITF) waste treatment site in Bawuran Village, Pleret District, was designed to destroy the waste that entered the facility.

"ITF Bawuran is one of the government-owned incinerators in DIY in Bantul Regency, owned by the Bantul Regional Owned Enterprise (BUMD) which is designed to destroy waste," said Regent Halim in Bantul, Wednesday, quoted by Antara.

According to him, according to the specifications of the waste processing machine in the Bawuran ITF, more than 50 tons of waste can be burned per day, although currently only about 20 to 25 tons of waste can be burned per day or only about 50 percent of the engine specifications.

This, he said, was because the majority of the waste deposited into the waste processing site was wet waste, so the burning process could not be carried out optimally and had to be dried first.

It will be different, he continued, when the garbage that enters the Bawuran ITF is dry waste, so that the process of burning garbage in the machine can run optimally.

"Because the waste deposited is wet garbage, it must be dried first. But if the garbage in the Baser ITF is dry, I believe the engine capacity to burn is able to work optimally," he said.

Moreover, he said, wet waste that enters the Bawuran ITF takes time to dry. Because no matter how high the heat level of the incinerator, if the incoming waste is wet, then the burning process cannot run perfectly.

"So, the waste processing capacity is still around 20 to 25 tons of waste per day. And this is planned, the management of ITF Bawuran will improve the machine's capacity with a new engine," he said.

Meanwhile, the management of ITF Bawuran Bantul Yuli Budi Sasang said that initially ITF Bawuran was projected to be able to process 40 tons of waste per day, but the waste management site, which officially operates six months ago, can only process 25 tons of waste per day.

"Management is a maximum of 25 to 30 tons of waste, but this amount can still be optimized if you are injected with more equipment. This waste comes from Bantul Regency and Yogyakarta City," he said.