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Collaboration makes recycling possible
Danone Indonesia senior sustainable packaging manager Ratih Anggraeni said the recycling process required collaboration among multiple players, ranging from scavengers and waste collection centers to recycled plastic manufacturers.
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Waste not, want not: Workers sort and clean discarded plastic bottles in Roy Pet Collection Center in Leuwigajah, Bandung, West Java. (JP/Riza Roidila Mufti )
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ore and more food and beverage companies in Indonesia are pursuing recycling initiatives with the goal of reducing the amount of plastic waste produced from their products.
Indonesia produces around 64 million tons of waste annually, according Environment and Forestry Ministry data from February last year. Of the total amount, about 15 percent is plastic waste, much of which is food and beverage packaging and plastic bags.
In December last year, The Jakarta Post had the chance to see how bottled water company Danone-AQUA makes its recycled bottles in Bandung, West Java. Danone Indonesia senior sustainable packaging manager Ratih Anggraeni said the recycling process required collaboration among multiple players, ranging from scavengers and waste collection centers to recycled plastic manufacturers.
Waste collection
It was a typical busy morning at the Roy Pet Collection Center, a private waste collection center in Leuwigajah, Cimahi, Bandung, which the Post visited in December. Roy Pet is one of six collection centers in Indonesia that works with Danone-Aqua to recycle plastic.
At the center, plastic bottles are pooled, sorted, cleaned and chopped into flakes before being sent to Namasindo Plas, a plastic bottle manufacturer that produces recycled bottles for Danone-AQUA.
