India, Nov. 13 -- Indonesia's third-largest city is not fully zero-waste yet. But its journey is inspirational

The attempts by Indonesia's third-largest city, Bandung, to solve its waste problem using the 'zero-waste model' are praiseworthy.

The capital of West Java province, Bandung is located 180 kilometres southeast of Jakarta and has a population of over 2.5 million inhabitants.

Since 1987, Bandung had been dumping almost 4,000 cubic metres of mixed waste per day in the Leuwigajah landfill. On February 21, 2005, an avalanche of the accumulated waste at the site buried 71 houses and killed 143 people.

In the aftermath of the landfill slide, the Bandung government tried to build an incinerator in the eastern part of Bandung city. Th...