2C A crisis of plastic waste in Indonesia has become so acute that the army has been called in to help. Rivers and canals are filled with dense masses of bottles, bags and other plastic packaging. Like many rapidly developing countries, Indonesia has become notorious for struggling to cope ...
Plastic waste is a huge problem in Indonesia,and this has led the country's second-largest city to come up with a novel approach to encourage residents to recycle—free bus rides in exchange for used plastic bottles and cups.The city of Surabaya launched the initiative back in April—the fi...
【题目】Plastic waste is a huge problem in Indonesia, and this has led the country's second-largest city to come up with a novel approach to encourage residents to recycle-free bus rides in exchange for used plastic bottles and cups. T he city of Surabaya launched the initiative back in ...
“In this waste reduction effort, the first stage is public education, then we ask for the support of the Ministry of Public Works. We hope the use of plastic waste for asphalt will become an appropriate solution for the problem of waste in Indonesia,” Burhanuddin said in a pres...
Workers collect plastic waste at Galuga landfill in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia, Feb. 20, 2024. (Photo by Sandika Fadilah/Xinhua) An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 20, 2024 shows workers collecting plastic waste at Galuga landfill in Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. (Photo by Sandika Fadila...
one Indonesian city has decided to accept recyclable plastic waste (收料圾) in place of money for city buses. Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city, made this decision in April 2018. A two-hour bus ride costs 10 plastic cups or 5 bottles.Indonesi a is the second largest ocean plastic...
He said plastic waste is dangerous for marine animals, sea birds and coral reefs. Plastic waste also brings disadvantages to the country's tourism sector, he added. Indonesia is an archipelago country home to over 17,500 islands.
Economic growth, changing consumption and production patterns are resulting in rapid increase in the generation of plastic wastes, including plastic packaging waste (PPW). A variety of PPW is identified in the municipal solid waste (MSW) stream. In this paper, quantity and composition of PPW at ...
For example, Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, is the most populated city in Southeast Asia, but it has only recentlybegun to build its first waste-to-energy incineratorafter nearly 4 years of delays. The city has long been struggling to manage overflowing plastic waste and sea pollution, creating...
Indonesian Minister of Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya said on Wednesday that the plastic waste came from land and were channeled through rivers to the sea. She called for intensifying measures to address the problem, starting from upstream sector until the downstream of the sector. ...