#single use plastic

Collection of single use plastic news, found 66 news.

"Sejauh Mata Memandang" joins Jakarta's ban on single-use plastic bags

Indonesia's textile label "Sejauh Mata Memandang" joins a civil society movement to free Jakarta from the ...

COVID-19: Plastic recycling industry laid off 63 thousand workers

The plastic recycling industry has laid off at least 63 thousand workers as an impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

Indonesia launches radical action plan to curtail plastic waste

Indonesia launched a plan of action to radically reduce plastic waste to fulfill its ambitious target of reducing ocean ...

Indonesia, Dutch discuss cooperation in waste management

Indonesian Minister of the Environment and Forestry Siti Nurbaya received Dutch Minister of Infrastructures and Water ...

Bogor approves foreign investment to construct plastic-to-oil facility

The Bogor city administration gave its approval to a foreign investment plan to build plastic waste-to-oil facilities ...

Education and Culture Minister imposes plastic ban within ministry

Education and Culture Minister Nadiem Makarim has placed a ban on the use of disposable plastic bottles or bags within ...

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 ...

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2020 resolution: Vote for Earth, shop at bulk store

“It’s just a plastic straw,” says eight billion of people. The single-use plastic straw ...

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 ...

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"Kresek" to "besek", Jakarta's plastic waste reduction effort on Eid

Indonesia comes second to China as the world's biggest plastic waste producer, with disposable plastic bags being ...

Istiqlal invites 1,000 people with disabilities for Idul Adha prayers

The management of Istiqlal Mosque in Jakarta invited one thousand people with disabilities to perform Idul Adha (Day of ...

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 ...

Bangka Belitung bans single-use plastic from Oct 13

Bangka Belitung Province's Disasters Mitigation Office (BPBD) will partially ban the single-use plastic at five ...