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The key to its success was inventing a currency to encourage collection: each 250 grams of plastic collected can be redeemed for a plastic coin, which in turn can be traded for a range of goods at a store run by the charity.
A global report on household waste management has singled out Indonesia, where nearly half of all households nationwide burn their garbage, with lack of public waste services compounding the sanitation, health and environmental issue.
As the world's second-largest plastic polluter, Indonesia has topped the global per capita intake of microplastics that are found mostly in seafood, studies suggest, with fishermen and coastal communities being the most affected.
As the host city of this year's AFF U-19 youth soccer tournament, the Surabaya administration reviving the same odor control measures it implemented at the Benowo landfill in 2023, when it hosted the U-17 World Cup.
The floating garbage and trash on the bottom of the Citarum River in West Java, often dubbed as the most polluted river in the world, as well as other bodies of water across Indonesia, comes from the mishandling and mismanagement of waste, experts have highlighted.
