Recycling, private initiatives.

[jstar]

We don't really have the 'container park' (déchèterie, recyclinghof) concept here as in many other countries.

Often there are landfills, even in the cities, where people can 'dump' their garbage.

Now it's rather positive to see some initiatives that will give people jobs and aim to recycle. Unfortunately it is all rather small scale and not coordinated.

This is one example:

Teman-teman,
Bagi Anda yang tertarik u/ mendaur ulang sampah dan tinggal di sekitar kawasan menteng, kami telah membuka Bank Sampah Ignatius. Anda dapat menyumbangkan sampah pilahan Anda setiap hari Senin dari jam 10.00-12.00, di Jalan Malang No.22, menteng (serahkan pd karyawan Bank Sampah kami yang bernama Pak Parno).
Kami menerima bahan-bahan seperti:
1. Semua jenis botol PLASTIK, tutup botol, packaging & container plastik.
2. koran, kardus, dus susu / jus dan kemasan KERTAS/karton lainnya.
3. Kaleng alumunium, tutup botol dan bahan METAL lainnya.
4. toples KACA dan lain-lain.
5. CD / DVD, bahan elektronik yang masih bisa digunakan / ataupun sudah rusak.
6. Jelantah (MINYAK goreng bekas)
Kami akan mengelola sampah dan menggunakan uang yg didapat untuk membayar karyawan kami yg memilah dan mempersiapkan u/ daur ulang. Kami mempekerjakan orang-orang yang menganggur dan berpenghasilan rendah, dengan cara itu Anda juga membantu mereka untuk mendapatkan uang tambahan untuk keluarga mereka.
Jadi tolong beritahu semua teman dan tetangga anda dan mari kurangi sampah yang kita kirim ke TPA hingga 90%.
Ingatlah, pertama-tama kita perlu REDUCE (kurangi) apa yang masuk ke sampah kita, kemudian REUSE (menggunakan kembali) apa pun yang Anda bisa, dan pilihan terakhir adalah RECYCLE (mendaur ulang) sisa limbah yang ada.
Kami berharap Jakarta akan menjadi lebih bersih dan lebih ramah lingkungan di masa depan.


Zero Waste Home Indonesia Movement ([email protected])

I put a loose translation underneath:

Friends,
For those of you who are interested in recycling and have been looking for bins and who are living around the Menteng area, we have opened the Garbage Bank Ignatius. You can donate your trash items every Monday from 10:00 to 12:00 hours, at Jalan Malang 22, Menteng (you can submit to Mr. Parno, a Garbage Bank employee).

We accept materials such as:
1. All kinds PLASTIC bottles, bottle caps, plastic packaging and containers.
2. newspaper, cardboard, cartons of milk / juice.
3. aluminum cans, bottle caps and other METAL materials.
4. GLASS jars and others.
5. CD / DVD, electronic materials that can be reused / or which are damaged.
6. Used oils (e.g. frying)

We will manage waste and use the money it generates to pay our employees who sort and prepare the recycling. We hire people who are unemployed and of low income, that way you also help them to earn extra money for their families.

So please tell all your friends and your neighbors, and let's reduce waste we send to the landfills by 90%.

Remember, first of all we need to REDUCE (reduce) what goes into our bins, and then REUSE (reuse) whatever you can, and the last option is the RECYCLE (recycle) the remainder of the existing waste.

We hope Jakarta will be cleaner and more environmentally friendly in the future.

Zero Waste Home Indonesia Movement ([email protected])

 

[Scooterindo]

This is a good initiative - I applaud their efforts, every little bit helps.

Point no5 of the project rings a bell at the moment (electronic materials that can be reused / or which are damaged) as one of my boys for their PDR project in school has decided he wants to build a computer, Sounds easy enough doesn't it?? Buy the individual components and ensure compatibility and just hook it all up - job done. No not my kid, he has decided he wants to build an old computer using "E-waste" as he calls it. He wants to get all the individual components and build a computer from the early 90s that will eventually run windows 95. We managed to find an old style CRT monitor (its huge), an old keyboard with the huge key buttons and an old style track ball mouse (remember those ??) which all looks positively primitive by todays standards. All the components were purchased with his own pocket money, the most expensive being Rp 75.000 for the monitor (I then paid Rp 350.000 to fix it) but after hours and hours spent scrambling around in barang bekas places to get this far he is as happy as Larry. It took hours of scrubbing with Jif and abrasive pads just to get it all to look anything near white again, in the end we gave up and settled for the "pub ceiling nicotine yellow" look, however that doesn't dampen his spirits and he said it looks even older so he likes it that colour.

My wife got a call the other day from the barang bekas man saying he has now found an early CPU unit and my son can have it for free, you know it must be shit when barang bekas is free. However my son is thrilled at the idea - so this weekend we are stripping a 1992 CPU unit to see if we can get it working by swapping out the components with later ones.

When I asked him "seriously mate why do you want this old shit computer boy ??" "We could've built a new one up from the best parts available and it would be much cooler" He looked at me for a moment and then with a smile on his face he replied "because I'm like you dad" - "I'm old skool" I was lost for words (especially as he is only 12) tears welled up in my eyes and I just had to give him a big hug.

To give you an idea of the scale of his undertaking here is his "new old" CPU.

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[HappyMan]

Christ, Scoot, I got a little smoke in my eye just reading that. I hope it works out for him.

 

[Jaime C]

Sounds like a good learning project, Scoot. Let us know how it works.

 

[Anglian]

I am very, very impressed, every success on his project, lets know how it goes

 

[Puspawarna]

Some neighborhoods do have separate trash bins for recycling (basah, plastik..I forget what they all say) but I am not sure people are using them. I have seen them in Bandung and up by Jl. Surabaya in Menteng, though. And quite a while ago rabbit39 took a photo for the journal I was editing, of recycling in Bogor. If I can dig up the article that went with it and it is not hopelessly technical (like most of the stuff we published) I will post it here.

Scooter, that's a wonderful story! Your son sounds awesome.

 

[Bad_azz]

Some neighborhoods do have separate trash bins for recycling (basah, plastik..I forget what they all say) but I am not sure people are using them. I have seen them in Bandung and up by Jl. Surabaya in Menteng, though. And quite a while ago rabbit39 took a photo for the journal I was editing, of recycling in Bogor. If I can dig up the article that went with it and it is not hopelessly technical (like most of the stuff we published) I will post it here.

Scooter, that's a wonderful story! Your son sounds awesome.

A lot of the recycling bins in Bandung have been repurposed- into what I dunno, but they have been nicked from their original positions

 

[Bad_azz]

...
When I asked him "seriously mate why do you want this old shit computer boy ??" "We could've built a new one up from the best parts available and it would be much cooler" He looked at me for a moment and then with a smile on his face he replied "because I'm like you dad" - "I'm old skool" I was lost for words (especially as he is only 12) tears welled up in my eyes and I just had to give him a big hug.

To give you an idea of the scale of his undertaking here is his "new old" CPU...

awwww I am sure he is going to grow up into a man you can be very proud of xx

 

[Smallworld]

Is that one of those Pentium I (pentium 100) processors with 100 MHz frequency?

 

[jstar]

In '92 they still had the x486 I think.

Most cables and motherboards are shipped to China nowadays, for stripping the copper and recovering the gold & platiunum as well. It is a rather dangerous job with all these chemicals and also not that easy. And if you think of the pollution generated by the transportation, it is often better to recycle close to the source.

 

[Puspawarna]

A lot of the recycling bins in Bandung have been repurposed- into what I dunno, but they have been nicked from their original positions

They've been recycled!

 

[Bad_azz]

To be fair I really think that people here are very innovative with how they reuse/recycle things. An old square can & a bit of bamboo- a few cuts later and a long handled dustpan emerges.
All the manky old wood from the construction sites: my hubby cleans it all up pulls out all the nails and sits with a hammer straightening them and puts them in a jar to use again. My kitchen cabinets/drawers were made out of the wood that was used as scaffold platforms and so on when the extension was being built.

I try to do my bit too, I'm currently using bun papers (muffin cups?), plastic coffee bags & empty milk cartons to set my seeds off in, all glass jars and bottles in our place get washed and sanitised then put away in a cupboard and reused when there is a need for them. Pringles tubes are great for craft activities such as making desktop pen/pencil holders.
There are so many fantastic ideas out there it is fun to experiment.
I make ashtrays/candle dishes out of old soda cans- a bit of cutting and weaving/folding and they are quite cute.

 

[Scooterindo]

Thanks everyone for the kind words, ill post up some photos and show you the progress as we go along.
As to what type of processor and all the technical stuff ...................... Sorry I just don't know.

 

[R Cameron]

Love it Scooter! But no Turbo button or 5.25" floppy??

 

[Jaime C]

I've got some new 8" floppys.

 

[waarmstrong]

Pella has a well organized, comprehensive recycling program coupled with the regular weekly trash pick-ups. Everything recyclable goes into the same bin; the sorting takes place at a center. The only drawback is that the bin is so big and ugly that I keep it in the garage; it goes to the curb when full -- about every third week. Iowa also has a soda/alcohol bottle 5 cent deposit law. We keep those & make a run to the private redemption center every six months or so. Usually yields $7 to $10 for our daughter. Development of an awareness and attitude is more important than the few dollars she puts into her savings account, though.

 

[fastpitch17]

In La Crosse, Wisconsin where i used to live, they had a fantastic program. The city provided a plastic tub for recycling that was picked up every two weeks. It didn't need to be large because you only recycled items like glass, metal, and newspapers. Anything that could burn was put in your regular trash.

All burnable trash went to the power company to burn and produce electricity. It was such an efficient program that the local landfill was completly closed and covered over. This benifited everyone. Electricity rates didn't have the raises they had previously, no more landfill, cleaner burning then coal so less poluted air, cleaner environment everywhere, cheaper cost to remove trash because it changed from you needing to dispose of it to the power company needing it for fuel, cost for fuel dropped dramatically for the power company.

The city set up collection points for yard waste that was turned into compost free to residents, construction waste that was safely processed, chemical waste including household chemicals for safe processing, metal and glass for recycling. The newspaper waste that was picked up at the curb was processed into animal bedding along with cardboard waste from businesses. Once used and soiled it went into the compost production.

Burning of trash was so successful that the power company even started buying the trash of some neighboring communities thus eliminating their landfills. Pretty efficient program. One that Jakarta or other Indonesian communities could benifit from. There is no shortage of burnable trash in Indonesia.