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The Bantargebang disaster exposes chronic weaknesses in Indonesia’s waste system – with overcapacity and poor management driving repeated risks.
Rising consumer demand for recyclable packaging contrasts with limited knowledge of "can-to-can" systems, according to a nationwide survey.
Close to half of the country’s waste is handled by vulnerable informal recyclers, so how much can a national framework really do?
A catastrophic dumpsite collapse buried scavengers collecting recyclables at a landfill in the Philippines’ Rizal province on 20 February, following a similar incident in Cebu in January that killed 36 people.
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