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View all search resultsBali to ban production of plastic sachet in 2026
Previously, Bali already banned the production and distribution of bottled water in under-1-liter containers.
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Plastic 'paradise': A fisherman pulls his boat out to sea on March 20, 2024, across waste that covers much of Kedonganan Beach in Badung, Bali. Kedonganan is one of Bali’s beaches most polluted with plastic materials. (Antara/Fikri Yusuf)
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he Bali provincial administration plans to ban the production of small plastic packaging, or sachet, starting in 2026 as a response to suggestions from environmentalists after banning the production of under-1-liter bottled water.
“I support it fully. This has been through studies on the small-size sachets, whether it [the ban] will be decided this year or next year [in 2026],” Bali Vice Governor I Nyoman Giri Prasta said in Denpasar on Tuesday, as quoted by detik.com.
Giri said the provincial administration was still focusing on the ban of bottled water first. He added there was a possibility that a ban on other plastic packaging would come in 2026.
“We have discussed this, there will be a decision later,” he said.
The former Badung regency head said that Bali Governor Wayan Koster was very wise in banning plastic packaging. The decision would still allow French company Danone to use up the bottled water production that has already been distributed.
“It means being visionary, [so that] our descendants [can] see Bali clean and green,” the politician from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle said.
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