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A 2019 study revealed that Bali generates 1.6 million tonnes of trash per year with around 303,000 tonnes of plastic waste. However, only some 48 percent of Bali’s waste is responsibly managed either through recycling or landfill.
The large inflow of tourists in Bali would likely not be accompanied by long-term planning, potentially resulting in mass takeovers of sacred lands, pristine beaches and enticing river banks to build hotels, villas, restaurants and other tourist infrastructures.
Efforts to reach the landmark agreement on the world's first treaty to curb plastic pollution are locked over several key sticking points, particularly reducing production and phasing out chemicals believed or known to harm human health.
In an official document submitted to the plastic treaty negotiation, Indonesia argued against reducing national plastic production, saying that current manufacturing capacity is not enough to fulfill the national demand of plastic products.
Environmentalists are pushing Indonesia to be more proactive in the negotiations for the world's first treaty aimed at curbing plastic pollution and spurring plastic waste diplomacy in Southeast Asia, a region heavily impacted by the matter.
The debate over whether a UN treaty should seek to limit the amount of plastic being made drove the last round of negotiations in Ottawa in April to overtime, with major plastic and petrochemical producers like Saudi Arabia and China blocking further negotiations around production caps.
