This morning’s Jakarta Post had a feature article about recycling. I used to work at a recycling center in California, many years ago and often get frustrated with people chucking their waste out on the street here in Bali.
We all know about the SE Asian haze, the annual smog that blankets part of the region, caused largely by fires in Indonesia. This is all bio-degradable material, that could be composted. The Jakarta Post talked about a fellow bamed David Kuper, who has started a recycling project in Gianyar. Composting is one of his specialties. I love ideas that can be put into action, over a wide area, with little cost. Composting is one idea that the Balinese should pay attention to.
Here’s more fm the Jakarta Post.
Here in Seminyak, a truck comes round to each house, and guys sort through the garbages left outside in the collection area. It pure Indonesian methodology, ‘chuck everything into a heap, then sort it out’. They could make their lives easier by distributing plastic collection bins for various grades of recyclables. I’m sure that’s coming later, but first we need a recycling center, on a scale that can process the stuff.
