<aside> 💕 Project Laut Yang Tenang: Bahasa, one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, is spoken by over 290 million people, predominantly in Indonesia. In Bahasa, laut yang tenang means ‘calm seas’.
Over the last few decades, the pristine coastlines of West Java have been devastated by rampant plastic pollution, affecting wildlife and contaminating waterways. We dream of returning the city and its ecosystem to its original beauty, helping it recover, rejuvenate, and thrive.
This Impact Project is our effort to stop ocean-bound plastic waste from leaking into Indonesia's coasts and protect its incredible biodiversity.
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<aside> 📍 Location: West Java, Indonesia
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<aside> ☘️ # of formal waste workers: 40
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Indonesia is facing an urgent plastic pollution crisis of staggering proportions. 70% of plastic waste is mismanaged, and ~760,000,000 lbs of plastic waste are discharged each year into the oceans from the region - highlighting the desperate need for investment in holistic waste management to protect the country’s vibrant yet highly vulnerable natural ecosystems that is home to the highest marine biodiversity in the world, including 750 species of Coral.
LDPE & HDPE plastic bags are collected via waste collectors from dumpsites, rivers, households, and smaller collection facilities (TPS) all within 50 km of the coastline. This is sent for recycling into pallets for use in supply chain and logistics operations
Project Laut Yang Tenang is a a flagship initiative by rePurpose Global aimed at redefining the status quo of plastic pollution in Indonesia. It is a collaboration between rePurpose Global and one of Indonesia's leading waste management innovators, Waste4Change. We work with individuals, households, businesses, and municipalities to provide end-to-end waste management solutions with a uniquely transparent and responsible approach. Your project will engage existing networks of informal waste workers, improve door-to-door collection services, and enhance local waste-bank conditions.
The project focuses on the recycling of low-value, flexible LDPE and HDPE plastics, which are typically ignored by local waste collectors due to low market value. The objective is to incentivize the collection and ethical processing of these plastic types. Following collection, the plastic waste is segregated, cleaned, and transported to rePal, a renowned recycling partner in Indonesia to convert it into pallets and contribute to the circular economy.
Through a network of Material Recovery Facilities, Project Laut Yang Tenang aims to create dignified livelihoods for informal waste aggregators and workers through steady and fair wages and safe working conditions. By mobilizing them to collectively address plastic pollution in Indonesia’s pristine natural environment, the project ensures that plastic waste is collected and sustainably managed, while ensuring ethical standards are upheld.
We are on a mission to achieve ‘Calm Seas’ in the region, as the project’s name suggests in Bahasa. Without this Impact Project, plastic bags would be destined for our oceans.
For every piece of plastic that rePurpose Global gives you credit for, it is a piece of plastic that would otherwise not have been removed from our ecosystems.
A 100% of the plastic recovered on your behalf is "Ocean-Bound". What this means is that this project focuses on the collection of plastic waste in a 100km radius from the coastline (as defined in the Verra Plastic Standards) that would otherwise have not been collected and would most likely end up in oceans. Essentially, it is an intervention to divert this plastic safely away from the oceans before it ever has a chance to leak into them.
Indonesia has a plastic recycling rate of only 12%. Flexible plastic carry bags are of low value and waste collectors require incentives to collect and ethically process this plastic. This project’s funding makes it viable for collectors to collect this material and ensure it is taken to its best environmental end destination.
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