#toxic waste

Collection of toxic waste news, found 36 news.

Medical waste generation up 200% in Jakarta since June

The volume of hazardous and toxic waste or medical waste generated in Jakarta has jumped up to 200 percent since June ...

VP seeks nationally standardized COVID-19 waste incinerators

Vice President Ma'ruf Amin has sought nationally standardized processing equipment for hazardous and toxic waste ...

Optimize state budget to dispose COVID-19 medical waste: President

President Joko Widodo has urged administrators to optimize the available budget for disposing COVID-19 medical ...

Recycling industry processing just one-third of nation's waste: govt

The domestic recycling industry has the capacity to process just two million tons of plastic waste out of the 6.8 ...

Indonesia needs medical waste depots at regional level

Local governments need COVID-19 medical waste disposal depots to overcome a lack of access to services for processing ...

Minister Pandjaitan inaugurates Batam oil waste treatment facility

Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan commenced the operations of a hazardous ...

Indonesia to ship toxic waste back to four countries

The Indonesian government will ship back 79 containers of industrial raw materials containing toxic and hazardous waste ...

President Jokowi raises issues of toxic waste

President Joko Widodo raised the issues of hazardous and toxic waste in the 14th East Asian Summit, held in the IMPACT ...

Government to reclaim regions contaminated by mercury

The government has prepared a national action plan spread over the next few years to reclaim regions exposed to the ...

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Indonesia takes firm stand on saying no to foreign rubbish

Over the past few months, Indonesia has repeatedly shown its objection toward becoming a dumping ground for foreign ...

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ASEAN Summit good opportunity to put brakes on plastic waste imports

The ASEAN leaders are set to meet in Bangkok, Thailand, from June 22-23, 2019, for the 34th ASEAN Summit, themed ...

Indonesia to re-export illegal plastic waste

Indonesia will re-export illegal plastic waste entering the country, Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya ...

Minister has waste regulation revised to avoid illegal imports

Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya has asked the Minister of Trade to revise Trade Ministerial ...

Surabaya to be role model for waste management

The Mayor of Surabaya, Tri Rismaharini (Risma), has expressed hope that the waste management in East Java provincial ...

PT newmont denies claims of dumping toxic waste at sea

PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara, on Friday, denied reports claiming that the mining enterprise was dumping toxic waste into ...