Asia / 06
Surabaya
Materials, work and shared responsibility
Surabaya offers a lens on waste as a complete urban flow: separation, collection, workers, processing and downstream markets. Household effort is one part of a larger operating system.
Compare ↗Research question
Where does individual behaviour end and the responsibility of infrastructure and institutions begin?
Conditions for transfer
Worker safeguards, reliable collection, verified downstream uses and life-cycle accounting are essential.
What remains unknown
Waste composition, diversion methods and environmental outcomes need transparent, comparable data.
