Team members
Syawaludin
CEO
Febriarti Khairunnisa
Director
Lalu Irfan Hadimi
Project Manager
Plastic Pollution Challenge
Mandalika as one of the national super priority areas in Indonesia is set to attract more than 3 million tourists every year. With existing inhabitants of 105,525 people, it has the potential to produce 26,592 tonnes of plastic waste a year, where 27.3% is recyclable waste. Meanwhile, the landfill provided by the government only has a lifetime of just five years.
Unfortunately, the Mandalika waste management system still remains unclear and uncoordinated. More than 70% of local people throw away their garbage into canals and rivers, this contributes to waste leaking into the ocean.
By implementing a comprehensive circular economy concept, starting from the stages of research, education and community empowerment, collection units establishment to the waste recycling process for industry, we have assisted more than 300 communities, villages, sub-districts and schools to form collection units or drop points.
Through this concept, we received high engagement and an enthusiastic response from the community who wanted to be involved in the system we developed. Our business model has driven the operation of more than 300 Collection Units which function as education centers and waste collection from both the community and the surrounding area. More than 1,806 tons of waste were successfully returned to the production chain of which 65.58% was plastic waste. At the same time, this effort has succeeded in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 1,497 tons of CO2-eq.
An integrated waste management system which combines public awareness campaigns, research and development, community-based waste collection system and recycling.
Solution
Adapting the Circular Economy concept, we developed a comprehensive Circular Economy System for a sustainable environment. Starting with building public awareness as the largest source of waste, upstream-downstream waste processing infrastructure based on available and applicable local wisdom, to building a sustainable market network.
Any collected waste is raw material that can be absorbed by the domestic recycling industry. Thus, we can contribute to reducing plastic waste pollution burden on the environment while reducing dependence on imported raw materials for the recycling industry. For example, in 2019, Indonesia was recorded to have imported more than 12 million tons of raw materials. To improve service outcomes and capacity, we are currently conducting development research to identify and map problems, challenges and potential for waste management in the community, as well as recording existing best practices for Knowledge Management where this has not been widely practiced in Indonesia. In terms of technology, we developed “SAMPUN”, a waste service application to target more people and the tourism industry.
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