Jakarta, April 22 -- The Ministry of Environment, in conjunction with Earth Day celebrations, underscored the need to support sustainable waste management by enhancing the role of waste banks.

"The (environment) minister has issued a regulation to stop open dumping activities. This makes the role of waste banks crucial in waste reduction," the ministry's Director for Waste Reduction and Circular Economy Development, Agus Rusly, remarked here on Tuesday.

He also praised the launch of the Training of Trainers (ToT) module for waste banks, conducted by the PHINLA Program run by Divers Clean Action (DCA) and the humanitarian organization Wahana Visi Indonesia (WVI), to improve waste bank implementation.

"The Environment Ministry welcomes t...