Environmentalists are employing various methods to overcome the waste problem, from cleaning rivers to using technology.

The real impact of the pollution of Jakarta Bay has been felt by residents on the coast of Muaragembong, Bekasi. The fish in the sea have disappeared, replaced by garbage.

Fed up with seeing piles of garbage, the residents of Sukamulya in Tangerang regency, Banten, have innovated a plastic waste processing machine using the basic technology of pyrolysis.

Deasy Esterina works with garbage collectors and housewives in running her eco-friendly business.

Kadirun’s journey in waste management began in 2016, when it was common for the people in his hamlet to dump their garbage into the river. He won many people over as he turned plastic waste into useful items.

Unwilling to see plastic waste pollute the environment in the Borobudur area, Hadi Prayitno, 45, turns it into various handicrafts of economic value.

The 14th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (BC COP-14) in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 29 – May 10, 2019, was lauded by environmental activists as the start of a new era in the war against plastic waste.