The precious leftover system: A waste disposal process to improve efficiency of waste management system in Indonesia

---

Fatimah Syaura and Edwina Bernita Sitorus

University of Indonesia, Indonesia

: Expert Opin Environ Biol

Abstract

---

Indonesia is the fourth country with the highest population density in the world. This leads to a massive amount of wastes produced each day. Indonesia has not performed any integrated waste separation activities for domestic wastes. The food wastes are dumped together with other kinds of domestic wastes. Basically, all domestic wastes will be gathered and processed at integrated waste disposal sites (TPST). The workers at TPST will eventually separate food wastes from the mixture of all kinds of domestic wastes to be composed. Therefore, the current domestic waste disposal management is not efficient. The precious left-over system is an alternative waste management system that will encourage society to separate food wastes thenceforth they dump it to a temporary disposal site (TPS). This system is an effort to increase the efficiency of the domestic waste management system in Indonesia. Besides, this system also educates society to possess awareness and responsibility towards their own wastes.

Biography

---

Fatimah Syakura is currently taking undergraduate program on environmental health in Universitas Indonesia. She has been Indonesian delegate for International Islamic Cultural Connect at Osaka-Kyoto in October of 2018. She has also achieved second place on a prefectural essay competition regarding mental health and food in the same month of 2018.

E-mail: fatimah.syakura@ui.ac.id