Bantar Gebang Garbage Power Plant is Eco-friendly: BPPT
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25 March 2019 20:51 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The head of the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT), Hammam Riza, assured the newly-inaugurated Red and White waste-to-energy power plant in the Bantar Gebang waste treatment area (TPST) would not pollute its nearby surroundings.
“This is an environmentally-friendly type and it can be established in the middle of an urban setting. It’s wrapped and does not emit any aroma, it doesn’t exude trash, the exhaust gas isn’t polluting, and the main point is that it isn’t a nuisance for the people in its vicinity,” said Hammam after inaugurating the garbage power plant in the Bantar Gebang TPST, Bekasi, West Java.
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The power plant was finished a year after its groundbreaking cermony in March of 2018. The plant's construction was sponsored by Rp98 billion research allocation funds and Rp88 billion development funding sourcing from the State Budget (APBN).
The Red and White PLTSa will handle 100 tons of trash each day and produce 700 kilowatts of electricity each hour.
The facility is made up of a bunker to accommodate the waste, an air pollution suppressor unit, and a pre-treatment unit to select the types of waste to be processed in the plant.
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