According to government estimates, Indonesia ranked as the third largest producer of plastic waste in the world in 2020, and the government hopes to progressively convert growing waste into an opportunity to provide electricity to its cities.
A working group was formed to study the challenge and they discovered that the country was producing at the rate of almost 70 million tonnes of plastic waste every day. The rate of waste production has already exceeded what the waste shelters could contain, and the public agencies are facing difficulties in building new waste shelters.
Apart from the recent pilot project with the local government of Daerah Khusus Ibukota, to convert waste to energy, the central governments also hoped to foster even more similar collaborations with private sector players. The pilot project was able to convert 100 tonnes of waste to 700 kW of electricity
The Indonesian government hoped to use the results from the pilot project to inform future designs and scale it across more locations.
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