Jambi

Jambi: Managing Solid Waste to Become a Center of Trade and Services

MAYOR Syarif Fasha of Jambi City was enthusiastic when exposing how his city had progressed in managing solid waste. Profiling Jambi from its population to waste produced, improvements made up to present moment, and achievement he would like his city to make in relation to the solid waste management, Mayor Fasha delivered all these in DELGOSEA Workshop on Solid Waste Management, August 2-3, 2016, in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Populated by 732.479 people, Jambi City is currently producing 1,564 m 3 or 1,094.8 ton of waste per day. With waste composition of 61% organic and 39% inorganic, Jambi City sets regulation that waste collection done by 7 am.

Moreover, the city also recruits 800 field workers to sweep streets every day, also done by 7 am. “By doing so, we try to make the city clean of waste during the daytime,” he said.

One of the Jambi City’s waste management programs is to reduce waste at source. This is conducted by empowering community to do 3R (reduce, reuse and recycle) to their waste. To support this program, the city has 61 waste

banks (organizations that collect waste and do 3R to gain income). Each of the organization owns a bank account that will issue cash or credits when a “deposit” made. According to the mayor, this program has contributed to 5% inorganic waste reduction (around 21 tons of inorganic waste) every day.

Considering the effort made by the city, UCLG ASPAC in collaboration with UNESCAP has selected Jambi City for a pilot project called “Waste to Energy”, targeting at promoting Green House Gas Reduction through solid waste management. This project is conducted in Pasar Talang Banjar, a traditional market in Jambi. In the implementation, the project will utilize 5 tons of organic waste; of which, 3 tons will be converted to electricity 18 KWH and the other 2 tons for composting. While inorganic waste will be separated in the waste bank every day.

Spending IDR283 million per year transporting market waste to landfill, local government of Jambi City has done thorough calculation that it turns out reducing expense as well as helping neighborhood get their electricity needs.

“We are committed to becoming a green city with sustainable infrastructure to support our City’s mission to become a center of trade and services based on local community and culture. … Waste to Energy would socially and economically benefit Jambi City. We will therefore duplicate it in all 11 subdistricts of Jambi. Doing so will reduce our expenses for waste collection in the markets by over 1.5 (one point five) billion rupiah per year,” said the mayor closing his remarks.

"Designs for Success: Best Practices in Local Waste Management" is DELGOSEA workshop on local waste management. The workshop was held as part of DELGOSEA commitment to facilitate exchange of best practice and lesson learned experiences between countries.