JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta Environmental Service (DLH) has recorded that fabric waste is still part of the capital's daily waste generation. Although the proportion is not large, the amount reaches tens of tons every day.
DKI Jakarta DLH Public Relations, Yogi Ikhwan, said that by 2025 the composition of fabric waste is estimated to be in the range of 0.9 percent of Jakarta's total daily waste.
"With an average of 7,600 tons of waste produced per day, the potential waste of fabric produced reaches approximately 68.4 tons per day," Yogi told reporters, Thursday, March 5.
With Jakarta's waste production reaching 7,600 tons per day, the waste of fabric is around 68 tons per day, which is not a small number. In a year, the volume is close to 25 thousand tons.
The DKI LH Office ensures that waste cloth that has been sorted is not immediately treated the same as mixed waste.
"If it has been sorted, the fabric waste is not entirely processed like mixed waste. Its management is directed at reuse according to its characteristics," said Yogi.
Yogi explained that fabrics that still have value can be reused through reuse, recycling, and upcycling. This scheme is aimed at extending the life of textile materials so that they do not end up in landfills.
Meanwhile, for fabric waste that is difficult to recycle, especially those made from mixed or synthetic materials, their management is directed to become alternative fuels.
"Waste cloth, especially those made of mixed or synthetic materials, is managed to be processed as an alternative fuel through the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) Plant facility," he continued.
Meanwhile, fabric waste that cannot be utilized or does not have a special processing scheme outside the mechanism, will become residues and be handled according to the waste management system in Jakarta.
With this pattern, DLH hopes that textile waste will not end up as a burden at the final processing site, but instead a portion can be reused or processed into an alternative energy source.
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