AutoKode (Automatic Composter for Rural Area)

26,8 million, or 43.7 percent of households in Indonesia, mainly in rural areas, are not covered by the waste management system provided by the government. Thus, most of their waste is unmanaged, dumped carelessly or burned which can cause negative impacts on the environment and society. This condition is worsened by the landfills are mostly operated using the open dumping method that produces leachate which can pollute groundwater and can generate greenhouse gases uncontrollably. It also continues badly because of the lack of public awareness and facilities in waste management.

Wastebender creates AutoKode which helps the rural community to manage their biowaste being compost easily, quickly and efficiently through the use of automation, acceleration and IoT technology. So when more than 80,000 villages in Indonesia use Autocode, they can reduce 17.57 million tons of biowaste waste and produce 5.27 million compost or equivalent to US$ 186.71 million in 1 year.

Indonesia has predicate as the second largest waste contributor in the world with an estimated 66.5 million tons of waste produced every year. These waste consist of 60% organic waste and 40% inorganic waste. Recorded, 26,8 million, or 43.7 percent of households in Indonesia, mainly in rural areas, are not covered by the waste management system provided by the government. Thus, most waste in the rural area is unmanaged, dumped carelessly or burned which can cause large negative impacts on the environment and society. This condition is worsened by the landfills in Indonesia are mostly operated using the open dumping method harming our environment and society because it produces leachate which can pollute groundwater and can generate greenhouse gases uncontrollably. It also continues badly because of the lack of public awareness and facilities in waste management.

We provide local waste management to more than 80000 villages or serve around 26.8 million rural households in Indonesia that do not receive access to waste management from the government or other institutions. We will provide AutoKode and management systems that will be used by residents independently. Its easy and fast use helps residents to manage their waste without requiring great effort in managing waste as well as when composting using a composter.

To realize local waste management and circular economy in rural areas, Wastebender creates AutoKode, an electronic device, transforming biowaste into ready-to-use compost easily, quickly and efficiently. Unlike ordinary composting that requires expertise, long time to process & regular monitoring, AutoKode automates and accelerates the composting process through technology & innovation that complies with national compost standards so the composting process will faster than the other solution without affecting the quality of the compost. It can also calculate user efforts in environmental protection by providing the data of waste & methane gas reduced and compost produced every day through mobile apps which also can be used for evaluation and determination of the future through data analytics.

Our key innovations are the automation and acceleration technology to boost the composting process, the implementation of cloud and IoT to monitor to measure the environmental impact.

Compost produced can be sold or used for community-based agriculture so that it can create new job opportunities and village income that can be used to improve village welfare and development.

AutoKompos utilizes technology and innovation to provide convenience in managing village waste when the community does not have the power to manage and access to waste management services. The good waste management will accelerate village development and create new income through the sale of compost, non-organic waste and community-based agricultural products so that AutoKompos creates a local, circular & sustainable economy in Indonesia

Our key innovations are the automation and acceleration technology to boost the composting process, the implementation of cloud and IoT to monitor to measure the environmental impact.

3 full-time staff

1 part-time staff

The team that makes up the company is a broad one with key experience in the environmental sector and electrical device development to support the ease of human activity. The team now consists of:

1. Mohammad Naufal (Founder and CEO) combines the four years of experience in climate change and waste issues in KOPHI and YFCC with his electrical engineering background to give him the combination of scientific and automation knowledge to solve the waste problem to bring this project into reality.

2. Bangkit Hadi Utomo (Co-Founder and COO) has a Bachelor Degree in Industrial Electrical Engineering. He has experience as a project engineer in the industrial paper manufacturing sector. Bangkit has been focused on scaling the production and operation process from lab scale to market.

3. Arif Dharmawan (Co-Founder and CTO) has a BASc in Mechatronics Engineering and industrial experience in 3D printer and IoT device. Arif’s experience has been invaluable in getting Wastebender’s production and R&D process optimised.

Our business model is B2B sales with villages as key consumer and beneficiary of our solution. We also has several channels to obtain profits, namely:

1. Spare parts sale that requires replacing regularly e.g. carbon filter;

2. Product service to maintain AWP performance that will be provided free as a product warranty, but after the warranty ends, product service will be paid;

3. Post-product service to provide market access for compost or agricultural products that come from their community-based agriculture

The Indonesian government through the Ministry of Village, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration has a rural development mechanism called village funds, where each village receives intensive funding. So far, village funds have not been fully utilized by the village due to a lack of knowledge to manage development funds, resulting in a lot of misappropriation of funds. This is a great opportunity for Wastebender to collaborate with this ministry to implement AutoKode to more than 80,000 villages in Indonesia through “1 village 1 AutoKode” program so that the village has a local waste management system whose results can be monitored anytime and anywhere via the mobile application. In addition, cooperation with the manufacturing industry is also required to produce AutoKode which has a standard not only for composting standards but also for electronic equipment standards such as EMC & ISO.