Bantul Regent Calls Waste Burning Evidence Of Failed Residents Taking Sorting

Illustration. Sanitation task force personnel from the DKI Environmental Agency cleaned up the waste after organizing the event in Jakarta. (Between-Aprilio Akba

BANTUL - Bantul Regency Government (Pemkab) requested that every hamlet or hamlet in Bantul provide a waste sorting shelter. This effort is to overcome the problem of household waste in their respective regions.

Bantul Regent Abdul Halim Muslih said that there were still residents who burned the garbage, indicating the failure of residents to sort it. Even though if you sort it according to the type, he continued, the garbage is sold to collectors.

"The burning of garbage means that he failed to sort, wong did not just sell it, try the paper if it is collected a lot, then in each reservoir there is a shelter, an on-organic waste depository place," he said in Bantul, Special Region of Yogyakarta (DIY), Sunday, August 13, confiscated by Antara.

The Regent said that if there were only a few developments to the household level, because for example, paper waste every day, it was impossible for them to collect paper at their own home, so they could be deposited in the house pilah Rumah Pilah sampah yang ada di peduhan.

"And currently there are more and more waste pick-up houses in the hamlets, and accommodate household waste in the area, but how many the Environment Agency (DLH) knows," he said.

He said, in each hamleting, indeed with a support-based community empowerment program budget of Rp. 50 million, he was asked to form a waste management team whose job is to accommodate waste sorting since the household.

"Of course it is to make it easier for households who are confused about where the garbage is placed, so they have been deposited there later when they have been collected to be sold or converted to the collection team is actually good, those who collect also get new jobs," he said.

Furthermore, the Regent said that his party had also formed an Emergency Task Force for Waste Management at the district, sub-district and sub-district levels involving elements of the government, government officials including village and sub-district officials.

"This task force is to tidy up their respective 'job desks', so they are not confused about what each person does, so we make a task force, there are leaders until each member has a job description of what he should do in a waste emergency. Of course, including monitoring waste disposal," he said.