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I live in Indonesia, here people don't even separate compostable, recyclable, and junks. Everything is just mixed and piled together like a man-made mountain at
by blacksoil 7y ago
I live in Indonesia, here people don't even separate compostable, recyclable, and junks. Everything is just mixed and piled together like a man-made mountain at the central garbage dump site. One day there was even a homeless trying to make some money out of picking up recyclables who died from getting avalanched by the trash... It's really disheartening to hear..
Does anybody know any resources on the economics of trash processing? I wanna explore the possibility of doing such a business in a sustainable way
- teknologist 7y agoI have some contacts in the industry and, as far as I know, sustainable waste processing is expensive and people are always trying to avoid it even if legally mandated. It is down to government regulation to force businesses to process waste in certain ways. I think you'd have to find what your government legally requires in a certain waste management area and work within those parameters
- blacksoil 7y agoThanks for the insight!