Plastic Waste Management in Indonesia: Review
Nisful Laila, Pankaj Kumar Das, Sanju Kumar Singh
Department of Management
Faculty of Economics and Business
Universitas Ailrangga
Abstract
There is low utilization of plastic waste in Indonesia and only a fraction of plastic materials goes back into production processes through re-use and recycling practices. The human dependency on plastic consumption increasing each year. It is lightweight, flexible, relatively inexpensive, and durable and used by several purpose to carry the different daily needs from grocery bags to 3D printed rocket nozzles. The main objective of this paper is to increase the knowledge regarding the factors that inhibit demand for recycled plastics and to identify critical barriers for plastic recycling process of Indonesia. The barriers, which identified, include the lack of both supply and demand of recycled plastic attributed to the fragmented market of secondary materials. The main hotspots identified are the low demand due to price considerations, insufficient traceability and general design deficiencies in the recyclability of products.
Keywords: Plastic waste, re-use and recycling process
Topic: Industrial and Hazardous Waste Management