· Jakarta, August 11 Dozens of people clutching bags full of plastic bottles and disposable cups queue at a busy bus terminal in the Indonesian city of Surabayawhere passengers can swap trash fo

Surabaya: Indonesia's secondlargest city has come up with a novel way to encourage its residents to recycle waste: giving free bus rides in exchange for used plastic bottles. Under the scheme ...

 · By: Ajeng Mufadillah)*The high quantity of plastic waste seems to be a trigger for Indonesia to process the useless goods into goods that are beneficial to society. One of them by processing plastic waste into asphalt for the of Public

 · Australian brand Five Oceans have made the ecoFin the world's first surfboard fin made from recycled postconsumer waste from Indonesia. Around 100 plastic bottle caps go into an ecoFin and their supply chain includes rubbish from the beaches of Bali. Sustainable surf's up! 16. Reusable and recycled cups for events

Loed in the town of Gresik in Indonesia's East Java province, the museum took three months to build and is made up of more than 10,000 plastic waste items, including bottles, straws and plastic bags, collected from polluted beaches and rivers.

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 · Indonesia's river of rubbish: Workers attempt cleanup of 400 tons of plastic, bottles and garbage stretching more than a mile along water surrounded by shanty towns

Reports from international garbage cleanup campaigns have shown that plastic debris from the food and packaging industries often enters the seas as flotsam. Included in the ten most common forms of flotsam are plastic bottles, plastic bags, straws, lids, and food packaging.

 · His weathered face breaks out in a big grin as Keman explains how sifting through rubbish paid for his children's eduion, one of many in his Indonesian hometown basking in a wastepicking boom. Governments around the world are grappling with how to tackle the scourge of singleuse plastic, but for the people of Bangun trash equals cash. Around twothirds of the town's residents eke out a ...

 · Indonesia, the secondlargest contributor of plastic waste to the world's waters after China, has pledged US1 billion per year to attempt to reduce the junk in its waters by 70 percent by 2025, according to Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairsi.. It is not surprising that Jakarta has made such a decision, given that the .

 · Harry Pearl BANGUN, Indonesia (AFP) – His weathered face breaks out in a big grin as Keman explains how sifting through rubbish paid for his children's eduion, one of many in his Indonesian hometown basking in a wastepicking boom.

 · Muharram Atha Rasyadi, a plastics campaigner with Greenpeace Indonesia says the situation has "become worse" since China's ban. – 'Extremely profitable' – Up to 40 dump trucks a day rumble into Bangun to unload garbage outside people's homes or in vast fields where it forms mountains of waste sometimes as high as rooftops.

 · How is plastic waste an issue for oceans/waterways in Indonesia? Plastic is very easy to find in daily life in Indonesia. It's in coffee cups, shopping bags, snack packaging, bottled water. It's everywhere. Every day, Indonesia generates 175,000 tons of waste and about 14% or 24,500 tons a day of plastics.

 · Plastic waste is a huge problem in Indonesia. Over the past few years, various images surfaced on the Internet and media showing how beaches on Bali – the famous island that forms the most popular tourist destination in Indonesia are swamped by plastic garbage. Another example is the city of Bandung (West Java) where the Indonesian army had to lend a helping hand last year to fish plastic ...

 · His weathered face breaks out in a big grin as Keman explains how sifting through rubbish paid for his children's eduion, one of many in his Indonesian hometown basking in .