Do you ever count the amount of waste you produce?

Greater Jakarta, with more than 30 million people, sends more than 14,000 tons of waste to eight landfills every day.

To put it into perspective, the waste that Greater Jakarta has produced in the past three years could fill up Jakarta's tallest skyscraper, the 310-meter-tall Gama Tower.

The gigantic flow of trash, coupled with poor waste management, has brought the metropolitan area into a crisis.

Some of the landfills are already overloaded or face the risk of becoming overloaded. Soon, Greater Jakarta residents will run out of places to dump waste.
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