PDAM: Now Pay Taps Bill with Garbage

Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan (Antaranews) - Regional Water Company (PDAM) Bandarmasih, Banjarmasin, now open cooperation with garbage banks.

 

Director of PDAM Bandarmasih Ir H Muslih on Saturday explained, the form of such cooperation eg public trash bins can be stored in the bank to pay tap bills.  "You'll be able to pay the bills with your garbage in the garbage bank," he told reporters in Banjarmasin. 

He said he has communicated the possibility of cooperation with a number of garbage banks in Banjarmasin, even there is a chance that PDAM give aid to garbage bank who's committed in implementing the program. 

"We can help with a computer later for the garbage bank," he said, as he reveals there are about 10 trash banks to cooperate with PDAM. 

According to him, the cooperation program help the area cope with the cleanliness of the environment and attempt to save the flow of river and soil pollution from household waste. 

"In this case we also communicate with the Head of the Regional Environmental Agency (BLHD) H Hamdi and waste banks initiator activator Fathurrahman," he continued. 

Of communication with the two men, he said, they both appreciate the step. They agree, in the future, the trash through a garbage bank account to pay the tap, electricity, and telephone in the official payment. 

That way, he added, people aware and feel the benefits of waste banks in the region could be even harder to bring their garbage to the bank for savings. No more carelessly discarded, destroy and pollute the environment, not again to make smelly and uncomfortable to look at.