What’s Needed and What’s Not in Compost Process

To make compost, we need some materials below

Carbon (C) rich raw material, for microbe food supply. You can identify this material with dry, coarse or fibrous, and brown color (brown trash)
Nitrogene (N), is needed for growing and proliferating, usually has green color and contains of water (green trash)

Brown trash (Carbon rich)
dry leaves
dry grass
sawdust
grain husk
paper
corn husk
straw
vegetable [...]

Compost, an Alternative for Organic Waste Utilization

Organic waste is usually classified by two types, household waste (such as pigswill) and garden waste (such as leaves). Each house can produce up to 2 kilograms waste everyday. Just imagine how much waste can be produced by one country in one month. It can reach unlimited number. The question is, what should we do [...]

3 Popular Plastic Trash in the Market

Producing new product from recycled plastic is growing rapidly years by years. Almost all of plastic trash (80%) can be processed into new product. There are also some plastic type that must be mixed first with other raw material to increase the quality.
Here are 3 popular plastic trash type in the market that can be [...]

4R – Waste Management Alternative

It’s necessary to handle a lot of waste problems with various alternatives of waste process and management. A landfill isn’t a good alternative because it isn’t continuous and can cause environment problem.
The waste management must be able to handle all waste disposal problem. Recycling all waste and give them back to nature or society economy [...]

Trash Management from Urban to Final Disposal Area

Generally, urban trash management has three steps of action. They are collecting, transport, and final disposal process. In the final disposal process, trash will be processed physically, chemically, and biologically.
There are two kinds of process on final disposal, open dumping and sanitary landfill. On open dumping process, trash is heaped continuously with land as the [...]

Jelutong Sewage Treatment Plant

Jelutong Sewage Treatment Plant (STP) is one of the most sophisticated STP in Malaysia which has a luxurious design capacity of 1,2 million population equivalent. Due to restriction on land availability, this STP has adopted a compact state-of-the-art Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) activated sludge technology with dewatering system and anaerobic sludge digester.
The waste treatment facility [...]