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Recycling firm battles Jakarta's plastic waste emergency
Tridi Oasis Group, which employs 120 people, has recycled more than 250 million bottles since it was founded six years ago.
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This picture taken on August 5, 2022 shows Dian Kurniawati, CEO and founder of Tridi Oasis Group, posing for photographs at a plastics recycling factory in Tangerang, Banten province. As the country's capital grapples with overflowing plastic waste and pollution pouring into the sea, a woman-led company is trying to turn its problems into opportunities through recycling. (AFP/Adek Berry)
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s Jakarta grapples with overflowing plastic waste and pollution pours into the sea, one burgeoning business is trying to turn rubbish into revenue.
Tridi Oasis Group, which employs 120 people, has recycled more than 250 million bottles since it was founded six years ago.
"I don't see discarded plastic as trash. For me, it is a valuable material in the wrong place," 35-year-old founder Dian Kurniawati told AFP.
Indonesia has pledged to reduce plastic waste by 30 percent over the next three years -- a mammoth task in the country of nearly 270 million people where plastic recycling is rare.
The country generates approximately 7.8 million tonnes of plastic waste every year, with more than half mismanaged or disposed of improperly, according to the World Bank.
Dian's company receives plastic from recycling centres across the greater Jakarta area -- which has 30 million people -- at its factory in Banten outside the city.
Then the company exports recycled plastic to European countries and also distributes it locally to be processed and used as packaging or textiles.
