Turning waste into Energy for Growing Population

City of Semarang is one of Indonesia’s largest city in terms of population number. The activity of the 1,8 million people in Semarang produces around 1200 tonnes of waste each day. This becomes a huge problem for the municipality. With the help of the president’s decree, the solution proposed were to use the waste as a source of energy. With the collaboration of the city’s landfill management and the Indonesia’s electricity provider, the waste produced in the municipality are processed to energy with incinerator method. The energy produced from this waste power plants are claimed to be enough for use of 800-1000 people. The success of this pilot project has already kicked off further expansion of this initiatives.