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SEA to open new ocean plastic collection center with global partners
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revented Ocean Plastic™ Southeast Asia (POPSEA) is proud to announce the grand opening of a new collection center on Jl. Pegangsaan Dua KM. 1, Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta, which is the next step in the company’s mission to set up best-in-class recycling infrastructure in underserved communities across Indonesia.
This latest site has the capacity to process up to 110 tonnes of plastic waste per month, will provide around 30 jobs and is a direct result of an ongoing partnership with Singapore-based investment management firm Circulate Capital, which also participated in the inauguration. POPSEA’s ambition is to fill the recycling infrastructure gap by developing an efficient and impactful model that sets the standard for industry best practice in Southeast Asia.
The POPSEA team is committed to developing practical solutions to improve the recycling supply chain in Indonesia and provide high-quality traceable recycled plastic to global markets, generating environmental, social and economic value from the first collector to the consumer. To date, the Prevented Ocean Plastic™ program has prevented almost two billion bottles from reaching the ocean, and grown into an award-winning initiative that works in partnership with global brands ranging from Lidl to LVMH.
“We have been addressing the problem of ocean plastic pollution for a long time,” POPSEA Director Daniel Lawrence said, “and our continued partnership with Circulate Capital allows us to scale that further by building more collection centers in the areas that need it. As a result of their investment, we have been able to expand our areas of coverage, provide more income opportunities for collectors and increase the amount of recycled material available for businesses to bring into their supply chain.”
“We’re proud to support POPSEA as they expand their locally customized plastic waste recycling infrastructure to coastal communities across Indonesia that have limited or no collection today,” said Regula Schegg, Founding Partner at Circulate Capital. “Through the success of its model, POPSEA is creating a blueprint for preventing plastic pollution in Indonesia and the region.”
“It’s an honor to engage with leading investors like Circulate Capital and the global brands that back them to address the problem of ocean plastic pollution,” POPSEA co-founder Raffi Schieir added. “By building more infrastructure, we can prevent plastic at its source and create a circular economy that will elevate all those involved. This latest opening in North Jakarta expands on Prevented Ocean Plastic™’s efforts to support research into the way garbage moves from land to sea and presents these collection centers as effective interventions that can be scaled up with the support of government, big business and other investment. Our mission is to open 25 new collection centers in at-risk coastal communities by 2025. Once complete, these new collection centers will be able to process over 68,000 tonnes per year of otherwise uncollected plastic from at-risk coastal regions.”
