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Nonprofit organization highlights high cost of plastic waste collection

Antara News | Local Language | News | Nov. 28, 2025 | Pollution

The Indonesia Packaging Recovery Organization (IPRO), a nonprofit focused on post-consumer packaging waste collection, highlighted the high costs of waste collection in Indonesia due to its archipelagic geography of 17,000 islands. This geographical challenge creates significant logistical and financial barriers to effective plastic waste management, identified as the primary bottleneck in the system.

IPRO General Manager Reza Andreanto pointed out that Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), mandated by the Ministry of Environment and Forestry Regulation No. 75 of 2019, requires producers to manage the waste from their products and packaging. However, enforcement of this law remains weak and largely ineffective. IPRO hopes a Presidential Regulation on EPR implementation, expected at the end of 2025, will strengthen industry involvement in covering waste collection costs through incentives and support infrastructure development.

Trijono Prijosoesilo, Director of Public Affairs, Communications, and Sustainability at The Coca-Cola Company Indonesia, expressed support for the government's EPR mandate but stressed the need for policies tailored to Indonesia's unique context. He cautioned against directly replicating European EPR models that do not account for Indonesia's complex geography and distributed infrastructure. Trijono also linked effective EPR policies to supporting Indonesia’s broader economic growth target of 8 percent by 2029.

Established in 2020, IPRO serves as an industry collaboration platform to fulfill EPR requirements and involves multiple stakeholders in the country’s packaging waste management efforts. The organization advocates for targeted government policies and industry participation to overcome collection cost challenges and improve recycling outcomes.

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