Kitakyushu Initiative for a Clean Environment

In Surabaya City, Indonesia, household organic waste composting has been widely practiced in communities. The city government, through the support of several private companies and local NGOs, have adopted the Takakura method that utilises baskets for household composting. This methodology was developed by Pusdakota, a local NGO, in 2004, with...

The problem of solid waste management has nowadays arisen into critical issues in some big cities of Indonesia. Whole responsibility for the waste services is mostly carried by its local governments (LGs). The mixed waste is collected at household level, transported and disposed to the dumping site. As the result, it is threaten the lifetime of...

Takakura home method is a set of composting methodologies developed in Surabaya, Indonesia. It uses native microorganisms (NM) for composting which is cultured and fermented from locally available materials such as fresh fruits and vegetable peels, yoghurt, tempe, brown sugar, rice bran and rice husks. This method is characterized by simple...

Bago City was used to be adjudged as one of the dirtiest in the region, with high incidence of poverty, malnutrition and health problem due to its failure in solid waste management. To address those problems, KABAHIN KA Programme, a comprehensive approach in solid waste management based on community participation was implemented and has...