Ministry of Environment Set Rules Waste Problem

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

JAKARTA, WEDNESDAY, Ministry of Environment in one year will be issued Government Regulation (PP) on waste management. This regulation was aimed at companies that generate waste released via the waste and packaging products.................

Decree issued on the basis of Law No.18 Year 2008 on Waste Management. "This regulation will give the company the responsibility of waste management, including when the received consumer," said Environment Minister Rachmat Witoelar, in Jakarta, Wednesday (10 / 9).

Rachmat added that the current waste management is only charged to the public. In fact, the location of the dump (TPA) citizens have bad effects on the environmental conditions that are not healthy.

One of the PP content was every industry must be responsible for packaging and packaging companies are obliged to label the subsequent processing instructions. Currently the draft regulations to the plan amounted to eleven points are still in the stage penggodokan in Ministry of Environment.

In the same occasion, Deputy Minister of Environmental Pollution Control Division, M. Gempur Adnan, the company proposes to establish a body or association to discuss more about the management of such waste.

Ministry of Environment as the supervisor hope, in one year since the regulation was issued later, every company can budget the cost of managing a company's internal parts. "Long-term, within ten years, 70 percent of the entire waste management industry in Indonesia has been running, with a level indicator on the environmental damage," Adnan added.