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Green entrepreneurs tackle Indonesia's growing trash mountains
2016-03-17 11:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Some residents of the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, frustrated by the mounting trash problem across the sprawling metropolis, have started taking matters into their own hands. Hamidi, a young "green entrepreneur" became so concerned by the overflowing Jakarta city dump that he began turning discarded plastic into fuel. "At the very beginning I just wanted to start a business," said Hamidi, who started his waste-to-energy initiative a year ago in Tangerang, a satellite city about 25 km (15 miles)...
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