These include cutting costs by more than Rp431.91 billion, creating new jobs for around 14.270 labors, help reduce green house emission by more than 1.4 million CO2E, help save more than 4.8 million MWH of power capacity and help reduce more than 252,000 cubic meter of water consumption.
There is also a “Rethinking Plastic” initiative, which is a pilot project under the auspices of German Agency for International Cooperation, often shortened to simply GIZ.
The German development agency that provides services in the field of international development cooperation has initiated “The Rethinking Plastics” project through close cooperation with international, and national and local partners, as well as the EU Delegation in Indonesia.
The project provides policy advisory support, fosters knowledge and experience exchange by facilitating a variety of activities, including public and private policy dialogues and capacity building, pilot activity and other related awareness-raising activities.
The Rethinking Plastics project supports six pilot projects, which are done to examine or establish a readiness for mandatory extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging in aligning with the Road Map Waste Reduction by Producer enacted by KLHK in 2019; advancing reduction of single-use plastic consumption to reduce potential waste generation through education and awareness raising, and introducing Fishing for Litter initiative as well as Clean Fishing Port, to address marine litter from fisheries sector.
Rocky P., the Advisor for Plastic Waste Management & Marine Litter Prevention at GIZ explained JakartaDaily.id explained how the Rethinking Plastics could showcase the benefit of implementing circular economy in Indonesia.
“Raising the awareness of the producers to be more responsible on the waste of the packaging in the post-consumption in Indonesia is crucial,” he said.
“Innovation for packaging should also consider whether the packaging is easy to be collected, can be naturally decomposed or feasible to be recycled; and participated in the collection as well as raising the awareness of consumers in treating their packaging waste.”
In order to encourage the responsibility of the producer in doing so, extended producer responsibility scheme is introduced.
“EPR instrument has been regarded by EU under its Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive that by end of 2024, EU countries should ensure that producer responsibility schemes are established for all packaging,” he explained.