date-created: '2006-07-14'
date-updated: '2025-11-27'
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    name: Appropedia
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title: 'Recycling and dengue fever in Sukunan, Indonesia'
description: "Dengue fever is a serious, sometimes fatal illness, which has been increasing in recent years in Indonesia. It is spread by a type of mosquito which can breeds in very small amounts of water - including rainwater captured by litter, such as discarded plastic bags. This project has addressed this problem in a village outside Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, through an ambitious waste management and recycling program, including changing people's habits in discarding rubbish."
keywords: 'recycling, mosquito control, dengue, waste management'
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version: 26
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    documentation: C
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