“Producer responsibility schemes provide for the financing or financing and organisation of the return and/or collection of used packaging and/or packaging waste and its channelling to the most appropriate waste management option, as well as for reuse or recycling of the collected packaging and packaging waste.”
Mirroring the experience of EU, the project Rethinking Plastics prioritise among others, initiative to promote extended producer responsibility scheme in Indonesia.
“The project supports the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of Indonesia, to advance and promote the implementation of Minister regulation no 75/2019 on Waste Reduction by Producers,” he said.
Rocky the presence of the Rethinking Plastic is expected to help the Indonesian government’s road map for waste reduction by producers, so that Indonesia can move towards full implementation of EPR for packaging scheme; where packaging by 2030 should be either can be naturally decomposed, fully recyclable and/or reusable.
“Producer is also required to participate in taking-back their packaging together with waste collection actors. The project through the pilot also provide capacity building of TPS3R and Waste Bank in Kota Semarang and Kabupaten Malang to strengthen the readiness of the waste collection actor in collaborating to implement the Road Map,” he said.
About Rethinking Plastics
’Rethinking Plastics – Circular Economy Solutions to Marine Litter’ supports the transition towards a circular economy for plastics to reduce plastic waste leakage into the sea and thus marine litter.
It is based on the cooperation between the European Union (EU) and seven countries in East and South-East Asia and is well-aligned with regional and national efforts and initiatives to reduce marine plastic waste. Jointly with its partners, the project works on improving the management of plastic waste, encouraging sustainable consumption and production of plastic as well as reducing litter from sea-based sources and strengthening green public procurement.
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Dialogue and learning from experiences and examples of policies, practices and innovative approaches are key to ’Rethinking Plastics’.
’Rethinking Plastics’ provides advice, promotes exchange and best practice sharing, implements activities and supports more than 20 pilot projects in China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam to test and disseminate new approaches or upscale best practices. Knowledge exchange is fostered, for example, through policy dialogues, workshops and conferences, webinars and awareness raising activities on plastic reduction.
The project is co-funded by the European Union and the Federal Republic of Germany through the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). It is jointly implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Expertise France. (des)