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Actress Yuki Kato backs ban on single-use plastic bags in Jakarta

Indonesian actress Yuki Kato welcomes Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan's regulation number 142/2019 on banning ...

Jakarta bans single-use plastic and expects to reduce waste volume

The newly enacted regulation to ban single-use plastic in Jakarta is expected to reduce the volume of plastic waste in ...

Taiwan to build modern fishing vessels in Indonesia

Taiwan's Chien Fu Shipbuilding Co, is ready to build modern high-tech fishing vessels made of fiber reinforced ...

Plastic waste entering Jakarta bay is mostly Styrofoam

Most of the 59 percent plastic waste entering the waters of Jakarta Bay daily is Styrofoam, trademarked brand of ...

Special team to probe dioxin-contaminated eggs in East Java

Environment and Forestry Minister Siti Nurbaya Bakar has set up a special research team to delve deeper into the ...

Incomplete combustion of plastic endangers environment: LIPI

A researcher at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) said that incomplete combustion of plastic for industrial ...

Further research needed to examine impact of microplastics on humans

Microplastics detected in marine biota are suggestive of marine contamination in Indonesia, though further research is ...

Instant noodle packaging among worst polluters in Indonesia

Plastic waste arising from local food and beverage products, mostly instant noodle brands, chiefly constituted the ...

Nordson introduces Encore® Engage powder coating controller at FABTECH

- Nordson Industrial Coating System, a Nordson company (NASDAQ: NDSN) and leading supplier of equipment for the precise ...

Production packaging must be environment-friendly: WPO president

President of the World Packaging Organization (WPO) Pierre Pienaar said that all the countries in the world are ...

Minister stresses public participation in war on plastic waste

Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan has appealed to the public to join ...

Fishermen conduct ocean cleanup to facilitate healthy crab harvesting

Central Java’s crab fishermen group recently conducted an ocean cleanup by removing three tons of plastic waste ...

32 leading global fashion and textile companies make commitments on climate, biodiversity and oceans

- Ahead of the G7 meeting at Biarritz from August 24-26, French President Emmanuel Macron, accompanied by Economy and ...

Mosques stop wrapping "Qurban" meat with single-use plastic

Mosques of several provinces in Indonesia stopped wrapping the sacrificial cattle (Qurban) meats with single-use ...

Foreign investment in petrochemical industry to enter Indonesia

Industry Minister Airlangga Hartarto affirmed that foreign investment in the petrochemical industry would enter ...