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Industry: Companies in the waste management and recycling industry for the treatment of municipal waste and processing of recyclable residues (material recycling), suppliers of waste treatment technologies (e.g. sorting, processing)
Government targets call for the imports of recyclable plastic residues to be halved by 2025. To this end, local collection and recycling processes are to be improved. Concrete measures are expected from Regulation 75/2019 of the Indonesian Ministry of the Environment. According to this regulation, producers of food, cosmetics and other consumer goods must reduce the waste generated by their own products by 30 percent by 2029, in particular through recycling and reuse. This affects packaging made of plastic, aluminum (cans), glass and paper. From 2030, the distribution and use of plastic straws, plastic bags and disposable polystyrene packaging will be banned.
Locally based consumer goods producers are actively driving the availability and use of recycled materials. The establishment of the Indonesia Packaging Recovery Organization (IPRO) was another important step towards Extended Producer Responsibility. IPRO is to organize the collection of packaging as well as develop new packaging concepts that can be recycled in a simple manner.
