Beyond ‘greenwashing’: Concrete Residential Waste and Landscape Management Strategies
We believe that all Balinese people are concerned about overdevelopment. The property industry has brought lots of economic benefits to locals. However, if property development in the island becomes so excessive that it destroys local culture and landscapes, the island will lose its charm.
As a company run by locals, the Nyanyi Bali Development does not want to see the island being destroyed by our own irresponsibility. Therefore, as has been mentioned in our previous stories, we manage our open spaces very meticulously.
Of course, in order to do this, we could not work alone. Luckily, we the Balinese people already have a very elaborate local wisdom on how to take care of our dwelling. On a communal level, we know how to manage our waste and landscape to preserve our environment.
As a local developer, we have already cultivated a very close collaboration with the local banjar community. So we engage them in setting up a proper waste and landscape management strategy for our project. We tap into authorities of the custom village in this endeavor as their environmental regulations have much stronger influence than those of the administrative villages.
Spatial planning
We began our project’s spatial planning by looking into custom village regulations on parts of local landscape which should not be tampered upon. First and foremost, our project should not overlap with public facilities. There is also some land around the green open spaces in which we are not allowed to build any residential projects at all. The land should be dedicated for community use only and to preserve environmental balance. To enhance the green open spaces around the project, the Nyanyi Bali Development also organized a communal tree-planting activity there.
Because the project location is being crossed by a river, we also need to make sure that local community members will still have access to it. We also have to protect local water resources so as not to create water scarcity for the locals. We also make sure that the residential complex will not pollute the river, which takes us to the topic of waste management.
Minimizing and monetizing waste
As a Balinese developer, we are already familiar with the best community waste management practices. The secret why Bali’s streets are very clean is because locals in every banjar take turns to clean them. However, with recent industrial development, there have been challenges related to plastic waste which pollute our rivers and beaches.
In this project, we endeavor to combine local wisdom on waste management with the most recent innovations in recycling initiatives. We also seek to familiarize the local communities on our plastic recycling initiatives so they could take part in it.
The biggest impediment to plastic recycling in Indonesia is a lack of ecosystem. When in fact, people could make money by recycling plastic waste. We try to make locals aware of the value of plastic waste by conducting several educational activities involving locals living near our residential project.
So first of all, we familiarize them on how to sort commercially recyclable plastic in our residential waste bank. We also help them create a bank account so they could receive the money from the waste they manage in our residential area. We also work with the Udayana University to come up with a design in which the waste generated by our residential complex could be effectively managed. The university has also created a prototype of plastic waste recycler which does not pollute the environment too much. This initiative will be dedicated to the Beraban village.
When our residential project is finished and its residents start to settle in, we will also inform them of this system. This is necessary for them to work alongside locals to keep the residential area clean and livable. Two essential elements of high quality of life.
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