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Trash pickers work on bicycles

Written by Writer on Saturday, October 25th, 2008

Trash pickers work on bicycles

Fri, 10/24/2008 1:34 PM  |  City

JAKARTA: The City Sanitation Agency has deployed 150 to 200 trash pickers riding bicycles or motorcycles to pick up household trash in every municipality in the city, an official says.

“The bicycles and motorcycles can reach residential areas only accessible via small alleys. We established the bike team because we have a limited number of garbage trucks and the trucks can’t operate 24-hours-a-day,” agency head Eko Bharuna said Wednesday.

He said his agency only had 765 garbage trucks, but that 1,000 were needed.

He said the transportation method was still being evaluated as the team had only been in operation for seven months.

Each bicycle/motorcycle is equipped with an orange tin box mounted at the rear to hold the garbage.

He said his agency had allocated Rp 300 million to procure the vehicles and that if the team proved effective he would expand the fleet next year.

Jakarta produces 6,250 tons of garbage every day. — JP

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News Topics : Bicycle, Bicycles, Bike Team, Fri, Garbage Trucks, Household Trash, Jakarta, Jp, Limited, Motorcycle, Motorcycles, Municipality, Orange Box, Residential Areas, Sanitation, Seven Months, Tin Box, Transportation Method, Trash Pickers