The meeting followed kick-off meeting waste treatment at ITB on July 5, 2023. Waste treatment team member, Emenda Sembiring, ST, MT, M.Eng.Sc., Ph.D., forwarded a number of plans regarding the scope of work of the ITB Waste Treatment Team for 2023-2024 to achieve eco-campus.
It starts with creating master plan Sustainable waste management at the ITB multicampus, program to increase participation university community support sustainable waste management, create good sustainable waste management SOPs where available events or not.
“Program to increase participation university community to support sustainable waste management, including Green our campus “This will start from August 21, 2023,” he said.
Green our campus is a multidisciplinary innovation program aimed at accelerating sustainable campus initiatives at ITB under the supervision of HMTL ITB, KMIL ITB and IATL ITB.
Meanwhile, the head of the waste management team, Dr.Eng. Pandji Prawisudha, conveyed a number of plans aimed at optimizing the Integrated Waste Treatment Facility (IPST) in the Sabuga region.
Currently, the majority of IPSTs process organic waste. Apart from this, organic waste is sent to Cicukang TPST, Environmental Department.
He said the composition of campus waste is very different from that of household waste. Up to 36 percent is plant waste, 16 percent food waste, 24 percent paper, 11 percent recycled plastic, 2 percent metal glass, 4 percent plastic residue and 7 percent d other percent.
“From here we can see that about 50 percent of it is organic waste, namely garden waste, so it is relatively easy to process compared to household waste or regular household waste,” a- he declared.
In order to treat this waste, several processes can be optimized, from mechanical sorting, mechanical collection and packaging of recycled materials, thermal collection and treatment of inorganic residual materials, to transport and biological treatment of organic materials.
With these different processes, the composition of the waste will be divided into recycled material of up to around 35 percent, ash residue of around 2 percent, 30 percent material ready to compost and 15 percent ready to be fed to the maggots.
Every step taken by ITB to manage waste will be optimized through various technologies. Thus, concerns about sustainable waste management programs are not only about the environment, but also about the use of technology.
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