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Essay On Waste In Jakarta

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Jakarta is the city in Indonesia, which has a second densest population in the macrocosm, which is about 30,539,000 based on the latest data provided by NYC data. As a metropolis with a large population, Jakarta faces a problem close to municipal waste. Every day, Jakarta produced around 6,000 to 6,500 tons of garbage. This garbage produced by households, offices, industries, and other commercial entities in the capital (Nurbianto, 2013). As an addition, Jakarta prefers to manage the waste using the landfill method, although there is also a waste-to-energy combustion method. The landfill is a practice of disposing of garbage by submerging it between layers of earth, to build up the low-lying lands. This method has done since the medieval era, by letting the garbage decomposed by the streets. This tradition leads to the plague that stalks every city. According to The Handbook of Solid Waste Management, it states that:

Beside landfills, waste-to-combustion energy (previously known as incineration) is a method to recycle waste that cannot become an economical source, and also incineration is one of the most useful ways to deal with waste and to reduce the harmful potential by converting it to energy. Municipal waste can produce more heat from the lesser amount, comparable to coal. In comparison, the waste …show more content…

After the waste has been divided, the waste may undergo the process of composting. Composting is one of the elements that integrates with municipal solid waste management. Composting in MSW is the degradation of MSW under the controlled system, which is unlike the simple decomposition (Kreith & Tchobanoglous, 2002). While the recyclable waste has an opportunity to go to composting, the residues will undergo some basic process for a new invention, such as conversion to electricity and biogas

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