Danone-AQUA is committed to reduce plastic waste that enters the oceans through a comprehensive approach by creating a circular business model, where currently 70% of Danone-AQUA’s business has come from the production of drinking water with reusable gallon packaging. Danone AQUA also has the product AQUA 100% Recycled Plastic, which is the first 100% recycled plastic bottle packaging in Indonesia that’s is also 100% recyclable which is is good for the environment.

IPRO is ready to help Danone-AQUA’s commitment which is carried out through three important steps, starting from the development of a plastic waste collection ecosystem, educating consumers to take responsibility for the waste they produce and innovation in the packaging used.

The Indonesia Packaging Recovery Organization (IPRO) signed a Memorandum of Understanding on accelerating the implementation of a circular economy in managing waste with the stakeholders in Bali on July 21, 2021 in a thematic session webinar organized by Greeneration Foundation in the event the 4th Indonesia Circular Economy Forum. The collaboration was carried out with Bali PET, ecoBali, and McKinsey.org
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With this collaboration pattern, McKinsey.org will play a role in encouraging the transformation of holistic waste management from the selected TPS3R (Reduce Reuse Recycle) in Denpasar through the Rethinking Recycling Academy Program. EcoBali will encourage local waste management while increasing the capacity of waste banks and social inclusion in Bali.

And, Bali Pet plays a role in increasing the capacity to collect specific material packaging waste which is PET. IPRO will provide an incentive financing scheme to run the program.

The Head of the Bali Provincial Environment Agency, I Made Teja, and the Director of Waste Management at the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Novrizal TAHAR, appreciated the program. They hope that this collaboration can manage the waste in Bali in a circular economy scheme, considering that the Suwung landfill in Denpasar, Bali is already in the stage of over capacity.

Bali, November 15, 2021 – In Indonesia, many waste final processing sites (TPA) are poorly managed. Sanitary landfills, a waste management system in which waste is dumped in a basin, compacted, and filled with soil, have yet to be implemented. A common occurrence is open dumping, in which garbage is left to accumulate in the TPA. As a result, the environment suffers, and the air, water, and soil become polluted.

In Indonesia, there are 355 sanitary landfills and controlled landfills. Based on 2018 data from the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK), 198 TPAs were transformed into open dumping sites. There are also only 157 sanitary and controlled TPA units.

TPS3R (Temporary Management Sites for Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) and TPST (Integrated Waste Management Sites) are also in poor shape in many areas. According to Ministry of Public Works data for 2021, 72 percent of the 1,807 TPS3R units and 41 percent of the 355 TPST units have been abandoned. As a result, every year, 40 million tons of waste, 10% of which is plastic waste, pollute the environment.

All of this, according to the Indonesia Packaging Recovery Organization (IPRO), is the outcome of ineffective and inefficient waste management, a lack of law enforcement and strong policy implementation by the government, and a lack of funds.

Therefore, IPRO brings together stakeholders in collaborative work through ESR (Extended Stakeholder Responsibility). This is a waste management strategy in which all parties play their respective roles.

“Today, IPRO and PT Reciki Solusi Indonesia signed a partnership agreement for the development of the Samtaku Integrated Waste Management Site (TPST) in Jimbaran, Bali, with the goal of zero waste to landfill,” stated IPRO General Manager Zul Martini Indrawati on Monday, November 15, 2021.

According to Martini, the collaboration between IPRO and Reciki aims to increase packaging waste collection at the collecting center level, including TPST.

As is recognized, IPRO has three categories of work programs, namely category A, increasing packaging waste collection capacity and recycling rates for specific materials, category B increasing packaging waste collection and increasing capacity building and infrastructure at TPS 3R (Reduce Reuse Recycling) and category C , education and research to strengthen government policies on waste management.

Reciki’s CEO, Bhima Aries Diyanto, stated that the collaboration between IPRO and TPST Samtaku Jimbaran, Bali, is critical to improving waste collection and management.

“In managing waste, we see waste as an opportunity to improve the community’s economy, social inclusion and environmental health. “The condition is that waste be managed responsibly,” explained Bhima.

Reciki previously worked as the manager of the Samtaku TPST in Lamongan, East Java. With good management and the use of waste as raw material, this company has helped to extend the life of the local landfill. The TPST, which was founded in 2016, is capable of reducing plastic waste by more than 95 percent and waste generation by 70 percent.

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