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View all search resultsPressure on for businesses to reduce plastic waste
A waste reduction roadmap issued by the then-environment and forestry ministry in 2019 has seen little progress in its implementation as the private sector has not adhered to the plan.
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Trash pickers look for plastic waste at the Talumelito Landfill in Gorontalo regency, Gorontalo, on June 30. (Antara/Adiwinata Solihin)
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he government is urging national and multinational companies to take responsibility and do more to tackle the increasing volume of plastic waste, as the country is failing to achieve its waste reduction target with post-consumer trash continuing to drown parts of the country.
In 2019, the then-environment and forestry ministry issued a ministerial regulation stipulating a waste reduction roadmap by producers, with companies in food and beverage, manufacturing and retail sectors urged to use more environmentally friendly packaging materials.
The roadmap is a form of the extended producer responsibility (EPR) policy mandating producers to take responsibility for the collection, transportation, recycling and disposal of waste from their products after consumption.
But the implementation of the roadmap, which targets a 30 percent reduction of waste generated from producers by 2029, has been seeing little progress and participation from companies, due to a lack of oversight.
In a discussion hosted by environmental group Greenpeace Indonesia on Monday, the Environment Ministry’s director of waste reduction and circular economy development Agus Rusly said that only around 50 companies comply with the regulation.
“Any company generating pollution must be responsible for [waste generated],” Agus said, adding that the government would step up the enforcement of the regulation.
