The growing piles of waste on Bali - a problem or an oppurtinity to make money?

Abstract

There is an emerging waste management problem in Bali. The government has taken actions and one of these is a joint venture biogas project at the Suwung landfill. This project is the first joint venture of its kind in Bali between the public- and the private sector. The current private company involved is PT NOEI. This project has been subject to discussion due to many difficulties surrounding it. This paper aim to explain these difficulties, by interviewing the actual company and the leading environmental NGO’s in Bali. Through these interviews we have extracted information that we have analyzed. Our analysis show that the main issues regarding this project are; too large scale equipment relative to the waste coming in, corruption, problems in transferring technology and knowledge, differences in cultural between countries and problems in implementing Public Private Partnerships in an effective way.