Turning the Tide: - How Can Indonesia CLOSE THE LOOP on Plastic Waste?

• The Plastic Pipeline: A Serious Game for Plastic Reduction Education is an educational video game project created in partnership with the Wilson Center’s Serious Games Initiative that aims to bring the complex world of plastic policy to the fingertips of people around the world and to spread knowledge about the sources of and solutions to plastic waste leakage. [...] Each of the stories included allows us a view of the solutions to the plastic waste problem in Indonesia, from the perspective of those fighting to end the crisis. [...] SECTION 1: Policy Innovations to Close the Loop on Plastics In this first set of articles, our authors lay out the scope and scale of the plastic waste problem facing Indonesia and how the national and city governments along with inter- national organizations and domestic environmental groups are working to create inno- vative policy solutions to stop the plastic waste at the source and protect ou. [...] Now is the best time to strip away the label of the largest ocean plastic polluter and adopt a new label: “Indonesia, the home of solutions to the plastic crisis.” Acknowledgements The author would like to thank the GAIA Asia Pacific team for their support and assistance in writing this Op-Ed. [...] for Indonesia’s Cities According to the Indonesian government, 3.2 million tons of plastic waste leaked into The best way to grapple with the problem their coastal waters in 2019 — and unfortu- of plastic waste leakage in Indonesia, or nately the number is growing.1 anywhere, is to identify both the character- istics of the cities themselves and waste challenges.