EndPlasticSoup Harvest Plastic for Pyrolysis on Lombok
Adopt a village on Lombok for a sustainable waste collection
- 1,250 USD enables 1 village to be trained, implemented and managed
- Please contact us: endplasticsoup@gmail.com
Summary
Lombok is an island of pristine beauty, poverty and rampant plastic waste. The root cause of plastic waste is a lack of waste management infrastructure.
The goal is organize household waste collection for 24 villages within one year, that will be sustainable financed by the revenue from the Pyrolysis plant. The revenue from this pyrolysis process will also enable further extension to 48 villages in the second year.
The project will not only support waste separation, enabling composting and a cleaner community environment, it will also contribute to reduce marine pollution, stop toxic open burning, and educate the young people.
Club donations:
- Silver: 1,250 USD enables 1 village to be trained, implemented and managed.
- Gold: 2,500 USD implements 2 villages.
- Platinum: 5,000 USD implements 4 villages.
Project overview
- Organize (train, implement, manage) household waste separation and plastic collection for initially 24 villages to be extended to 48 villages (300 households/village) throughout Lombok in the next 2 years, for areas and households that do not have paid collection service.
- The plastic waste will be collected (bi)weekly and transported by GTM to the pyrolysis plant that processes the plastic waste to create oil products.
- NGOs Wise Steps and Harvest Plastic Lombok will manage the training, implementation and sustainable operation. Local ECO Heros will be selected to ensure the success and continuity.
- GTM ensures payment of 2000 IDR/kilo plastic waste. A plastic credit system is being used to ensure additional revenue for the villages to ensure sustainability and extension to 48 villages.
- RC Mataran , Lombok will provide education materials for primary school teachers to educate children (age 6-12) in these areas.
- RC Bali Action, the EndPlasticSoup Ambassador Club in D3420, will manage and administer the financials, will assure the implementation process and ongoing operation to complete the project for 48 villages, and supports the reporting.
- Measurement: number of participating households, number of people reached, number of volunteers and paid staff, number of kilos plastic collected.
Impact
1. Reduced health risks by eliminating toxic open burning of plastic and minimizing disease that breeds in plastic waste.
2. Prevent plastic pollution from entering the ocean.
3. Training to initially 7,200 and in total ±14,400 households in Lombok on waste sorting and reduction.
4. Education to children to become aware, become motivated for a zero-waste economy and inspire their parents toward less waste and a healthy life style.
5. Composting to improve soil and enable growing local vegetables.
6. Restore dignity and pride through cleaner communities.
7. Additional income: 14,400 households, about 43,000 people, will gain some additional household money: about $2 USD per month (2000 IDR per kilo plastic is the same rate of a landfill waste picker).
8. The Buyback financing process finances growth, to add new villages after the implementation of the first 24 villages.
9. Buyback and recognition enable the continuity of the collection process including the (bi)weekly plastic transport, making the project sustainable.
10. This project can be an example for other regions in Indonesia and abroad.
