The Malang government has been exploring and piloting programmes to accelerate the sustainable development of the regency, including projects that help improve waste management. Bersih Indonesia is supporting this by enabling a circular economy for plastic. It will establish waste management infrastructure to improve access to formal waste collection services and build an ecosystem of downstream players to create viable end markets for recycled post-consumer resins. Discussions are underway to extend this to a national programme.
Malang, Indonesia
Bersih Indonesia: Eliminasi Sampah Plastik
Our flagship project Bersih Indonesia: Eliminasi Sampah Plastik (trans. Clean Indonesia: Eliminating Plastic Waste) aims to develop an effective, scalable, and commercially viable waste management system in Indonesia to support the nation’s goal to be plastic pollution-free by 2040 – an ambition that requires collaboration across the public, private, and people sectors.
The Mulyoagung Bersatu Malang TPS3R sorting and recycling facility is separating their waste into 30 to 40 commodities, making it one of the few waste systems in Indonesia with lower contamination rates. We aim to bring this to scale through Bersih Indonesia
The Mulyoagung Bersatu Malang TPS3R sorting and recycling facility is separating their waste into 30 to 40 commodities, making it one of the few waste systems in Indonesia with lower contamination rates. We aim to bring this to scale through Bersih Indonesia
Overview
Location
Malang, Java, Indonesia
Jobs Created
Over 3,000
Plastic Waste Diversion Target
50,000 tonnes per year
Will Serve
2.6 million residents to receive improved access to formal waste management services
Malang, Indonesia: The Sengguruh Dam is one of the major waste hotspots in Malang regency, where inorganic and organic waste leak into from villages up-stream.
The Indonesian government has shown immense commitment to waste management, targeting to ensure that 70% of the country’s waste is well managed by 2025, with a 70% reduction in ocean plastic waste in the same period. Indonesia has also committed to becoming plastic-waste pollution free by 2040, as part of its National Plastic Action Partnership commitments.
Enhancing capacity and capability of waste management infrastructure is a key short-term priority as about 60% of the country’s urban population does not have access to waste management services.
Malang, Indonesia: Waste generated within Malang is collected at TPA Talangagung. To prevent plastic waste from leaking into the environment, we will be developing this into a materials recovery facility.
“This programme must be able to combine waste management models with circular economy principles to increase the economic value of plastic waste and facilitate the development of downstream ecosystems to take recyclates, including lower value ones, from the Malang Regency and turn them into new materials for industry”
Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Coordinating Minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs
Collaborative steps towards plastics circularity
Bersih Indonesia builds on the learnings from our portfolio including Project STOP Jembrana and Rethinking Recycling. Working together with public and private sectors, together with implementation partners Mott MacDonald and SYSTEMIQ, we are committed to strong implementation and delivery of Bersih Indonesia to help end plastic waste in the environment.
Malang, Indonesia: Jacob Duer, President and CEO of the Alliance, (2nd from left) with Dr Nani Hendiarti, Deputy of the Coordinating Section for Environmental and Forestry Management (3rd from left) and Drs H M Sanusi, Bupati Malang (4th from left)
The project begins in the Malang Regency where five material recovery facilities and four transfer stations will be built. Recyclables will be channelled through the recycling value chain, creating end markets for post-consumer recyclates and establishing a sustainable, circular economy for plastic.
With commercial viability, technical capacity, and governance in place, we hope to present a de-risked opportunity to potential investors and funding partners, advancing needed investments to replicate this waste management model to other regencies in Java.
The Alliance team with Mr. Renung Rubiyatadji (4th from left), Head of the Waste Management Division of the Malang Regency Environmental Service, Jason Hale (3rd from left), Director of Operations, SYSTEMIQ, and Joi Danielson (3rd from right), Partner, SYSTEMIQ.
The Kemantren sorting facility demonstrates existing village-based waste management practices. Here, local waste workers separate valuable recyclables from household waste.
The Mulyoagung Bersatu Malang TPS3R sorting and recycling facility has also served as an educational centre for best waste management practices in the regency and on a national level
“I genuinely believe that with the Alliance supporting us, we will be able to achieve 100% coverage of our waste management services. We will move away from landfills and instead have waste that is properly managed. Whether it is turning it into refuse-derived fuel or recycling plastic waste. This is all part of the national waste management strategy set by the federal government.”
Mr. Renung Rubiyatadji, Head of the Waste Management Division of the Malang Regency Environmental Service
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