Pengelolaan Limbah Konstruksi Di Jakarta

Abstract

This paper deals with construction waste management in Jakarta and its relation to urban solid waste management issues. As the largest industry in any economy, construction industry is a major consummer of natural resources and a major generator of solid waste. Attempts to reuse its waste stream would considerably reduces its natural resources consumption. Despite the fact, information and studies on the management of this waste stream in Jakarta has been very limited. Observations and interviews with contractor and waste trader/transporter in Jakarta reveal that the management of this waste stream has been carried out by waste trader/transporter in the absence of government policy and regulation. Waste generated from one construction project is usually re-used by other projects. In between these projects a network of waste trader/transporter are actively seeking and channelling the waste material. Factors giving rise to these (re-use) activities consist of factors internal to the waste materials and factors external to waste materials. The former includes quantity, quality of waste material, and distance/location where waste are generated. The later includes the readily available low cost labor, incremental method of housing construction, as well as the high demand on housing in Jabotabek.