Closing the Loop in Plastic & Packaging – Best Practices from Businesses in Indonesia

The massive use of plastic products among the global community has created concern over the environmental problems, in particular due to the mismanagement of post-consumer plastic waste. Plastic pollution can be found in all major water bodies and flow further to the ocean turning into marine plastic debris. The National Plastic Action Partnership (NPAP) referring to WEF (2020) mentioned that around 620,000 tonnes of plastic waste leaked into waterways and oceans in Indonesia in 2017. The Government has set a plan of action to reduce 70 percent of marine litter by 2025 (President Regulation No.83/ 2018) and ask producers to reduce 30 percent of their waste by 2029 (Ministry of Environment and Forestry Regulation No.75/ 2019).

Being aware of the mentioned above problem, Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD) through an initiative called Tackling Marine Litter by Seizing Circularity Opportunities share this working document of businesses’ smart practices and concrete actions in handling plastic waste in the spirit of EPR and circular business models titled Closing the Loop in Plastic & Packaging – Best Practices from Businesses in Indonesia.

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Published on: March 10, 2023
By: IBCSD Editor
Content type: News & Insights, Publication
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