Environmental Sub-Agency Personnel Clean Up Trash in Muara Angke by Hand

A joint team from the environmental sub-agencies of the Thousand Island regency and North Jakarta mayoralty began cleaning piles of trash in Muara Angke, North Jakarta, on Saturday.

The personnel reportedly picked up the trash by hand.

“We cannot use heavy equipment since the surface is soft. If it [the surface] looks like it will withstand the heavy equipment we will deploy them to accelerate the process,” head of Thousand Island environmental sub-agency Yusen Hardiman said Saturday as quoted by kompas.com.

He added that he would communicate with Jakarta’s water body sanitation unit to deploy two amphibious backhoes.

“If we pick up the trash manually when will finish?,” he said, adding that the amount of trash piled up in Muara Angke reached up to 1,000 cubic meter.

According to head of the Muara Angke community Risnandar, trash floating in the ocean was washed ashore by the phenomena of increasing westerly winds, which had occurred since December 2017.

Around 90 sanitation workers, eight trucks and four ships have been deployed to clean up the trash. Yusen predicted the process would take around a week.

The trash covering mangrove forests in Muara Angke would be delivered to Bantar Gebang landfill.

Courtesy : TheJakartaPost
Photo : Megapolitan Kompas

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