My Village is No Longer Fresh (Polluted)
By AW Wardhana
The development of technology has
changed how the citizen thinks. All people know that the development of
technology is to encourage social welfare, yes! It is about money. Who thinks
prosperously, he or she gets the more benefits at first. Inspiring from
television, they directly act to get profits from their action.
The thing that people prefer to
do is how to manage minimal capital and get maximal result. Yes, we can call it
as economic motive. The best thing that they can do is recycling. They can get
row material with cheap price, even they get it free. For example, waste and
rubbish, people recycle those things to be more valued creation such as
wallets, bags, and other accessories.
In the otherwise, my home sweet
home village speaks so different. Madiopuro, a village is closed to River
Tenggor, Jombang Region – East Java. Many people have tried to be mainstream.
One does the rubbish management company, the others do the same. Typically, it
is also no different with the neighbor like Bakalan, Kendalsari, and Curah
Malang. They have the same way.
A big question: What is the
interesting issue in this case? Dust and pollution are the cause. People who we
call them as entrepreneur has recently organized rubbish business, namely
burning dust row material to be metal bar. They have also organized plastics
rubbish but no significant as metal bar.
The competition each entrepreneur
became very tough as more people join in that segmented business. As a result,
the materials were decreased. No few doers were bankrupt. Now they have moved
on this business sector.
The process of producing metal
bars especially aluminum is not easy. At first, they have to have a link to the
big company which results the crude aluminum waste. Actually, it’s company
produces the waste but its waste is still useful. By filtering its waste, we
can get the residual material. People cook it with very hot temperature. The
result of its production is metal bar second quality, it is not prime one.
Now, what is the problem? It is
good that many home productions can produce more valued products and can
increase people’ economic. But the dust as a result of metal bars production
still becomes a big problem. They do not have the solution how to recycle it
again. Additionally, they insert it into the white bags and use those to build
some pathways in this village.
Seemingly, there is no impact but
do you know? Very sharp smell comes every morning for a month. While the rain
comes, it camouflages to produce the white fog. If we inhale its fog, we can
get bronchitis or deep inhale. Our breast is able to be very hot. To be an
acute, we can collapse. It happens until three months to be fresh but still
appears ammonia smelling. According to the people in this village, they have
given a testimony that it surely disappear for 1- 2 years.
We can imagine that the people
inhale its pollution till two years. It means that the fresh air in this world
is very expensive. Some children here often go to District Clinic to check up
their breathing. They have to get the steaming aid from the doctor. Unfortunately,
it is not cheap at all. Minimally, they spend more than Rp 80.000,- per
steaming.
Moreover, the workers from this
village who take part in that company, are more apprehensive. For the save of
money, they sacrifice to work without masker. Usually, they use the saroong to
be their shield from fire. They do not care anymore to their safety. The point
is that they can work and get money.
It’s very realistic that people
in this village use its dust to be reclamation of building pathways. If they
use the sands or numeral classifier of lumps, it will be very expensive. No
wonder, people even the organizers do that in order to get profits from its project.
In this case, we wish that the
budget which is used for that reclamation is fair. We do not expect that the
budget reaches the price of numeral classifier of lumps but the realization is aluminum
dust price. This is the critical issue of this article.
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