The Greenmetric Team of the University of Medan Area as a Resource Person at the SMAN 2 Plus Penyabungan Compost Making Training Webinar in Collaboration with the SMAN 2 Plus Penyabungan Mabisuk Foundation with the GreenMetric Team of the University of Medan Area on Thursday, October 15, 2020 via Zoom Meeting and Youtube SMAN2PLUS.
The activity was attended by Sulhan Hamid H. Lubis, M.Pd as the presenter, Rini Eka Setiani, M.Pd as Moderator, Prof. Ir. H. Zulkarnain Lubis, MS. Ph.D as Chairman of the Marbisuk Foundation, Ir H. Dahier Lubis, MMA Acting Regent of Mandailing Natal, Prof. Dr. Dadan Ramdan, M.Eng, M.Sc. Chancellor of Medan Area University and Hendri, MPD Principal of SMAN 2 Plus Panyabungan as well as resource persons from GreenMetric UMA.
As for the remarks from the Principal of SMAN 2 Plus Panyabungan saying congratulations on participating in the Compost Fertilizer Making Training webinar, actually I hope for the activities directly because related to the Covid 19 pandemic we are implementing it online and it is hoped that all participants will continue to be enthusiastic until the end of the event.
“The program of SMAN 2 Plus Panyabungan is Agro Eco Tourism related to Green Design. There have been a lot of plans, namely making a compost house, a nursery, and later we will create a hydroponic program,” said the principal of SMAN 2 Plus Panyabungan.
As for the remarks from the Rector of the University of Medan Area, I am very happy that SMAN 2 Plus Panyabungan has many very useful programs, one of which is the Compost House, Nursery and others, later SMAN 2 Plus Panyabungan can see how to manage compost at the University of Medan Area. UMA also has a Campus Forest, where UMA is one of the private universities which has a beautiful forest in the middle of the campus which has a fish pond, garden, star and rare plants managed by UMA. UMA is also the only private university that has a UI GreenMetric certificate with Rank 15 National and 303 International and many other achievements have been made by Medan Area University.
“I hope the younger siblings after graduating from college at the University of Medan Area will develop their knowledge in school about compost management, etc.” said the Chancellor of UMA.
As for the remarks from Prof. Ir. H. Zulkarnain Lubis, MS. Ph.D said I am grateful that Medan Area University can collaborate with the Marbisuk Foundation. Hopefully in this collaboration there will not only be the GreenMetric program there will be many more that we will realize in order to help SMAN 2 Plus Panyabungan. 2 Plus Panyabungan.
Furthermore, the presentation from the Secretary of GreenMetric UMA Abdul Karim S.Si, M.Si explained how Medan Area University in compost management. Previously, the definition of waste, which I will explain, is all types of solid or semi-solid waste that are discarded because they are not used unwanted and some of the objects or things that are considered unused, disliked or thrown away. this time we focus on Organic Waste, but for the inorganic we have also prepared for the use of other products. As for the waste in TPA Falls Medan, we process it into fertilizer made at the University of Medan Area.
“Lecturers and students at the University of Medan Area become experts in handling waste in several districts, one of which is in the Aceh region, there are several districts, then in Dumai, Medan, and later there are several more points that we will visit the TPA for garbage collection,” said the pack. Karim.
The waste management activities at the University of Medan Area are organic waste which becomes compost and becomes aromatic and inorganic waste becomes recycled material. Furthermore, the compost that is ready to be packaged will be used in the existing plants in the Medan Area University experimental garden and implemented on plants in the Regency Region that have plants.