Garbage In Samarinda Capai 100 Tons Per Day, DLH Limits Disposal To TPS Until 6 Pm

Illustration. Piles of garbage at the Galuga TPA, Cibungbulang, Bogor Regency, West Java. (Between-Arif F)

KALTIM - A total of 85-100 tons of waste is transported from the Temporary Disposal Site (TPS) in Samarinda City to be disposed of to the Final Disposal Site (TPA) in Sambutan District every day.

"Every day the team transports from TPS to TPA, at least 85 tons to 100 tons per day. This is a fairly large number, it's only natural that the TPS condition exceeds capacity," said Secretary of the Samarinda City Environmental Service (DLH), Nur Hikmah in Samarinda, East Kalimantan (Kaltim), Sunday 11 December.

He said, apart from the TPS, his team also combed the garbage on the main roads and also the river flow called the ant team. Because there is always garbage scattered on the edges of the road and also swept away in the river.

His party appealed to the residents of Samarinda to be orderly in throwing garbage and throwing garbage in its place.

Several times it was found, he said, there were also those who were still throwing garbage in the river, on the side of the road, and in places they shouldn't be.

There is a provision to dispose of garbage at the TPS, from 18.00 WITA to 06.00 WITA. Outside of that, it is not allowed to dispose of garbage. This is due to the limited number of garbage transport officers, so they only focus on disposing of waste at the scheduled time," said Nur as quoted by Antara.

He explained that the waste that had entered the TPA was carried out in a reduction process, such as sorting. From the sorting, some are recycled by business groups, some organic waste is processed as compost. And there is also the role of scavengers in sorting the waste into goods that have a selling value.

He also revealed that DLH also shifted several points of TPS to a place a bit far from RT settlements, responding to protests from residents whose houses happened to be close to the TPS and some of the TPS were still installed on privately owned land.

"However, with the limited TPS, we appreciate the RT-RT who took the initiative to manage waste transportation in their area," he said.