Each year, Indonesia produces an alarming amount of plastic waste. According to a report by the World Bank, the country is ranked as the world’s second-largest plastic polluter, just behind China. In 2016, Indonesia produced 3.2 million tonnes of plastic waste, and that number is only expected to grow.
What’s even more troubling is that only a fraction of Indonesia’s plastic waste is properly recycled. Most of it is simply dumped into the ocean, where it wreaks havoc on the …