KLHK Continues To Remind Residents To Segregate Garbage From Home

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) encourages all parties to sort waste from home in order to facilitate the use of waste as raw material for the recycling industry.

In the opening of the 2022 National Waste Care Festival, Tuesday 14 June, the Director General of the Directorate General of Waste Management, Waste and Hazardous Toxic Materials (PSLB3) KLHK Rosa Vivien Ratnawati said the circular economy approach to encourage the use of waste by the industrial sector requires waste raw materials that do not mix with other types of waste. other.

"We're talking about industries that will use waste and when using garbage they can't use dirty ones. We have to use segregated waste," said Vivien as quoted by Antara.

He reminded all parties to sort waste starting at home. Sorting from home will result in good quality recycled raw materials because they are not mixed with other types of waste.

This sorting, he said, is important to encourage the availability of recycled raw materials, considering that Indonesia is still importing waste for the needs of the recycling industry.

"Imagine the amount of waste in Indonesia, which is 67.8 million tons, 40 percent of which we still import plastic and paper," said Vivien.

He gave an example of the need for recycled paper raw materials of around six million tons per year with 40 percent of this need to be met by imports.

"Because we haven't sorted it out properly. I don't stop when there is an opportunity to talk, which is to remind us that let's sort the garbage out of the house," he said.

He also reminded that the waste that has been sorted should be brought to a location that ensures that the waste will not be mixed again and can be picked up by the industry.

One of them, he said, is that the public can bring the sorted waste to waste banks, the number of which is currently growing rapidly.