Bali Pilots Packaging Waste Recycling

TheIndonesia.co - The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) said Bali became a pilot project on the management of packaging waste recycling.

"Bali has become a 'pilot project' aside from East Java, but we haven't visited there (East Java) yet," said the Head of Sub-Directorate for Goods and Packaging Waste Management KLHK, Ujang Solihin Sidik, to Antara, Thursday, November 3, 2021.

He said that visiting Bali was an effort to see the KLHK Ministerial Decree No P75/2019 application, in which the producer is required to discharge their packaging to be recycled.

The Ministerial Decree arranges the producers to cooperate with other parties to provide the packaging waste storage.

"The regulation was created because producers are the ones who produce waste from their packaging. Now, they (producers) have to do it because it is 'mandatory,' not voluntary," he added.

Recently, KLHK has been recording the data of producers, from large, medium, to small companies, to focus on implementing the ministerial regulation, especially companies that produce a lot of packaging waste.

Next, said Ujang, they will see how the producers implement the regulation.

There are two packaging waste collection schemes. In the individual scheme, each producer will give their packaging waste. In contrast, the collective method requires collective producers to return their packaging waste, which means not only one producer but a combination of several producers.

KLHK also visited the Indonesia Packaging Recovery Organization (IPRO) in Bali.

The General Manager of IPRO, Zul Martini Indrawati, stated the importance of collaboration to collect packaging waste to be recycled in the recycling industry.

"We work collaboratively with the Extended Stakeholder Responsibility (ESR) approach, which invites stakeholders, either private sector or formal and informal sectors, to manage post-use packaging into raw materials needed by the recycling industry," she said.