West Java to build waste treatment sites to turn plastic into raw materials, fuels


Local children watch as a backhoe dredges garbage from the Pisang Batu River in Pahlawan Setia village in Tarumajaya subdistrict, Bekasi regency, West Java, on Wednesday. - JP/ANN

JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post/ANN): The West Java administration will construct waste treatment sites that process plastic waste into diesel fuels and raw plastic materials that it hopes will be used by 2023.

The project is a collaboration between the provincial administration and United Kingdom-based plastic processing company Plastic Energy. The company has helped initiate feasibility studies that the administration is currently running.

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