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Indonesia
2008
Gianyar Waste Recovery Project
2009
2006 2007 2008
2005
Project Site Location
Town of Temesi, Regency of Gianyar, Province of Bali.
Background - Problems Addressed and Policy Responses
Bali, Indonesia’s primary travel destination, faces an escalating
waste problem that already affects its tourist sector. In the
formerly pristine environment, waste is now burned roadside
or disposed indiscriminately in rivers and canals, thus
polluting also beaches and coral reefs. The waste problem in
Bali, like elsewhere in Indonesia, needs urgent attention.
Compost made from organic waste
Project Outline - Objectives and Activities
The goal of this pioneering waste-recovery project is to contribute to a cleaner environment with a
viable model for solid waste management that can be replicated in most of Indonesia’s 457 Regencies
and smaller cities. By composting organic waste, about 250,000 tons CO 2 equivalent of the greenhouse
gas methane will be avoided. An important complementary component of the project is an educational
environment theme park - the first of its kind in Indonesia - next to the Waste Recovery Facility.
Impacts and Achievements
The planned and expected outcome is a low-cost and low-tech decentralised model for environmentally
friendly solid-waste processing that is sustainable and can be replicated elsewhere. The achievements
were: Centralisation of “Waste-to-Energy” facilities as a low-risk waste recovery model; reduction in
climate change, waste volume, and emission amount of hazardous substances; recovery of non-renewable
resources; awareness-raising of a model large scale waste recovery facility; and establishment of a theme
park focused on climate change, solid and liquid waste management, renewable resources, alternative
energy and the like.
Future Challenges
The challenges are: dealing with the delay between paying for external CER verification (20,000-40,000
USD) and the payback, which takes 3-5 years; reducing the percentage of garden waste (90%; mainly
Chanan flower offerings on square palm leafs, which slows down the compost process), and kitchen waste
(10%); and tackling the problem of overflow from the facility that needs to be landfilled when the 60 ton
capacity of the facility - the largest and first of its kind in Indonesia - is insufficient.
General Information
Name of the Implementing Organisation:
Yayasan Gelombang Udara Segar (Yayasan GUS or GUS Foundation)
Type of Organisation: NGO/CBO
Contact: Ni Made Kushandari, Manager
Yayasan GUS, Jl. Legian 138 Kuta, Bali 80361Indonesia
Tel: (+62) 361 759 323 Fax: (+62) 361 767 654
E-mail: gusinbali@yahoo.com
Project Reviewer (NetRes / Collaborators) that monitors the project:
Toshizo Maeda, Kitakyushu Urban Centre, IGES
E-mail: maeda@iges.or.jp
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