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Indonesia: Environmentalists have criticised a government plans to burn medical waste in cement kilns. Yuyun Ismawati, co-founder of environmental organisation Bali Fokus, told the Jakarta Post newspaper that burning the clinical waste could cause pollution and that it was only an emergency solution. The Environment and Forestry Ministry asked four cement companies in April 2018 for help with disposing medical waste after two of the six medical waste companies in the country stopped operations as a result of legal sanctions.

Indonesia: The Ministry of Environment and Forestry is working with four cement producers to dispose of medical waste. Rosa Vivien Ratnawati, the Director General of Waste, Hazardous and Toxic Waste (B3) at the Ministry of Environment, said that the project was a short term one that would last six months, according to Netral News. The government department will work with Indocement’s Citeureup plant, Holcim Indonesia’s Narogong plant, Semen Padang and Cemindo Gemilang’s Bayah plant.