Jakarta mandates household sorting to reduce chronic pressure from waste

Jakarta now requires households to sort their trash for composting and recycling, and to reduce the amount of waste sent to landfills, in an effort to ease pressure on the overloaded Bantar Gebang landfill in Bekasi, West Java, as it heads toward a tipping point driven by more than 9,000 metric tons of garbage per day.

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