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Thu, 04/19/2018 - 03:40
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Gunung Kidul People Build Trash Bank

GUNUNG KIDUL, Yogyakarta, April 19 (Antara) - The people of Selang village in Wonosari sub-district, Gunung Kidul district in Yogyakarta Special Region have set up a trash bank to supplement family income, and keep the environment healthy and clean. Sulaiman, the initiator of the trash bank in Selang village, said here on Thursday that he was concerned about the amount of unrecycled waste, and then he had the support of the Environment Agency to set up a trash bank. Trash bank as part of efforts to overcome ubiquitous problem in Indonesia is also able to empower the people's economy at grassroots level. It is actually a ubiquitous problem in Indonesia as the people either burn their garbage in front of their houses or simply throw it into the rivers, for they have lack of methodical way to deal with it. Consequently riverbanks in urban as well as rural areas are plagued with massive pile-ups of plastic bottles, empty bags of chips and various types of large and small trash. But the Ministry of Environment has launched trash bank development program in a bid to raise the circulation of people`s economic value. Hence, the people can take advantage of the trash bank development system by sorting, recycling, and saving the wastes whose result can be utilized at a later date. Garbage management with a lot of positive impacts through the trash bank development program is inseparable from the participation of people, especially from the grassroots level. The trash bank development in Gunung Kidul is expected to reduce the garbage problem and raise the circulation of people's economic value. Gunung Kidul Environment Office Chief Agus Priyanto said he was trying to educate the community related to waste management, because the public needs to be educated so that waste is processed independently in order to have an economic value.

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