Waste
- Capacity Building
A milestone of the ASEAN Young Climate Leaders Program 2022 (ASEAN YCLP)
News Editorials Water Themes Capacity Building Myanmar Water Portal Thursday, 03 February 2022 The very first ASEAN Young Climate Leaders Program 2022 (ASEAN YCLP) is a leadership development program run by Common Purpose in partnership with ASEAN Foundation, SAP, and GIZ. The Challenge that the participants explored, ideate, and initiate projects on is:…
- General News
Govt inaugurates Central Java plant able to produce fuel from waste
Island of plastic: Goats rummage through plastic waste on Panggang Island in Thousand Islands regency, north of Jakarta. The government plans to impose a plastic bag excise tax in a bid to fight plastic pollution. (JP/Wendra Ajistyatama) Source: The Jakarta Post Date: 21 July 2020 The government inaugurated on Monday a…
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Deadline Approaching for Jakarta Waste Plants as Landfill to Reach Full Capacity in 2021
Worker operate heavy machinery at Sunter Intermediate Treatment Facility in north Jakarta last year. (Antara Photo/Aprillio Akbar) Source: Jakarta Globe Date: 27 July 2020 Jakarta’s city administration has pledged to accelerate the construction of intermediate waste treatment facilities to convert waste to energy at four locations across the capital as the…
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Plastic pollution plagues Southeast Asia amid Covid-19 lockdowns
Featured Indonesia generates 6.8 million tonnes of plastic waste each year. (Photo: EPA) Source: South China Morning Post Date: 9 August 2020 Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia have seen a surge in plastic waste as environmental awareness takes a back seat to health concerns There has been a heavy reliance on food-delivery…
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Circular Economy, A System That Can Realize Sustainable Development
Featured Illustration. The Indonesian government continues to encourage the achievement of a circular economy system. This system has the potential to realize sustainable and environmentally friendly development. (Photo by M Agung Rajasa / ANTARA FOTO) Source: Katadata Date: 26 August 2020 The Indonesian government continues to promote the realization of a…
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In Indonesia, coronavirus floods Cisadane River with extra hazard: medical waste
Featured Members of enviromental group Bank Sampah Sungai Cisadane (Banksasuci) collect medical waste at Cisadane river in Tangerang. (Photo by Willy Kurniawan / Reuters) Source: Reuters Date: 1 September 2020 For the residents along Indonesia’s Cisadane River, the coronavirus has brought not just deadly disease, but also a deluge of medical…
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LIPI Recycles Disposable Face Mask Waste into Plastic Pellets
An incinerator company worker wearing protective suit prepares bags of medical waste to be loaded into a truck in Jakarta, Indonesia, August 12, 2020. Picture taken August 12, 2020 For the residents along Indonesia’s Cisadane River, the coronavirus has brought not just deadly disease, but also a deluge of medical…
- Editorials
Can Plastic and Rubber Industry Recover from COVID-19?
Plastic Waste in Integrated Waste Management Sites (TPST) Bantargebang (Photo: CNBC Indonesia/Muhammad Sabki) PT Pamerindo Indonesia held a webinar titled “A Strategy Overview on How Indonesia’s Plastics & Rubber Industry Recover Post COVID-19“, focusing on the current state of the plastics and rubber industry in Indonesia, its current challenges as a…
- Editorials
စိမ်းလန်းသော (မြေ)နေရာများနှင့် အပြာရောင် (ရေ)နေရာများ၏ လူမှုရေးနှင့်စီးပွားရေးဆိုင်ရာအရေးပါမှု
Source: Urban Green – Blue Grid for resilient cities ရေရှည်တည်တံ့သည့် ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ရပ်ကွက်များတွင် ပျှမ်းမျှအားဖြင့် လူတို့သည် ပိုကျန်းမာလေ့ရှိပြီး ကလေးများသည် အပြင်ထွက်် ကစားလေ့ရှိသည်။ မကြာသေးမီ နှစ်များအတွင်း မြို့နှင့် မြို့ကြီးများတွင် စိမ်းလန်းစိုပြေခြင်း၏ အကျိုးကျေးဇူးများ နှင့် ပတ်သက်သော အချက်အလက်များ ပိုမိုရရှိလာသည်။ လူအများစုသည် ပိုမို စိမ်းလန်းသော ဒေသ၊ပြည်နယ်ခရိုင်များ၌ နေထိုင်ခြင်းကို နှစ်သက် လာကြသည်။ စိမ်းလန်းသော ပြည်နယ်ခရိုင်များ သို့မဟုတ် ရေနှင့်နီးသော နေရာများ သို့မဟုတ် သစ်တော ဧရိယာများတွင်ရှိသော အိမ်စျေးနှုန်းများသည် အခြားနေရာများထက် ပိုမိုမြင့်မားသည်။ နိုင်ငံသားများကို ပိုမိုအဆင့်မြင့်သော ပညာရေးစနစ်များဖြင့် မြှင့်တင်နိုင်ရန်အတွက်…
