Muhaimin Iqbal
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Environmental and Social Actions

Advanced Renewable

Tue , 05 Mar 2024 18:04 WIB

This year is a critical year for a number of cities in developing countries, the waste management crisis has reached its peak. A number of final waste disposal sites (FWD) have had to be closed due to over capacity, while the waste produced by city residents certainly cannot stop. What is the solution?

Large corporations, public companies, issuers and other financial institutions should be able to do something. Most of The Financial Services Authority in the world has required them to produce a Sustainability Report or what is widely known as ESG. Apart from corporations affected by this regulation having to report their activities related to ESG, they also have to reserve appropriate funds for these activities.

Fund allocation reports can be made easily, but what are the real actions that really have an environmental and social impact? This is where we offer to utilize ESG funds, especially ES, to deal with the above unstoppable waste in our cities.

In principle, waste should not be left as waste and then simply moved to another place and remains waste. But the waste which is a burden or liability is quickly converted into assets, the simplest of which is charcoal.

When biomass waste turns into charcoal, there are two benefits for the environment at once. Firstly, the waste volume has automatically decreased to only 1/3 of the original waste volume. Second, waste which was originally a liability has now become an asset, namely becoming carbon-neutral energy when used as fuel, and even becoming a carbon sink when used to treat agricultural land and used as material.

The social impact will be tremendous, society will value waste - because it is a potential asset. Society will no longer need a landfill because this prospective asset will definitely be maintained by its owner. So what kind of assets can be produced from this waste? it could be regenerative energy which I often upload on this media, it could be a land fertilizer, it could be a future advanced material such as Carbon Nanotubes etc.

But this all needs to start with an example and be campaigned in a structured, systematic and sustainable manner (TSM), one of which is through the use of cool waste collection and processing fleets like in this photo. Waste is collected from where it appears and immediately after its appearance, it is then processed into charcoal while traveling to the carbon pool - for the next process.

Is your corporation wants to start first as part of your ESG activities? Our team from ESA Force is ready to execute it in the field.