Source: World Economic Forum Date: 28 June 2021Indonesia's waste management issue has reached an alarming scale and therefore calls for immediate action.The country requires collaboration from all sides, to come up with viable action plans to tackle the problem.The challenge contributes to the Indon...
Danone-Veolia opens recycling plant to reduce plastic waste in Pasuruan
Source: The Jakarta Post Date: 30 June 2021 The government has inaugurated a PET bottle-recycling factory in Pasuruan, East Java, that will help reduce plastic waste in Indonesia, especially from single-use plastic bottles. The plant, which started operating in April, was built in a partnership betw...
Consumers and businesses hate plastic waste, but problem remains
Source: The Jakarta Post Date: 24 April 2021 Plastic pollution is never far away in Southeast Asia. It's in the streets, the rivers, the forests, the beaches and almost anywhere else you care to look. According to a 2018 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) analysis of plastics production, de...
LIPI Recycles Disposable Face Mask Waste into Plastic Pellets
Source: Tempo.coDate: 18 February 2021 The disposable face mask waste is a new problem in the society amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, especially in the household level. The team of researchers from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) is figuring out the solution to the matter by recycling disp...