Project Description
1. Identify barriers and motives for each stakeholder to understand the factors that would facilitate changes to current practices for low valuable plastic waste management. 2. Explore how to introduce a new waste technology that could convert low valuable plastics from Cibubur East Jakarta City into an energy source.
Project Personnel and Beneficiaries
Korean and Indonesian Government and their people.
Outcomes to Date
Community knowledge on how to manage waste/low valuable plastic recycling. Creating Social Enterprise opportunities for women in Indonesia; and development of waste management solutions.
Project Significance
Plastic pollution is a long-standing global concern caused by solid waste. It is not new that most of the planet swims in single use plastics, in 2015 more than 380 million tonnes of plastics were produced worldwide. While efforts to reduce the pollution caused by plastics is increasing, the world still struggles to overcome this enormous challenge.