Sponsor Update 2016 (Part II): Community Waste Management in Amed

by Amelia Meier on 26/09/2016 No comments

September 26, 2016 – Trash Hero Amed, Indonesia

Another project we discussed in our newsletter to sponsors released this week is the community waste management that Trash Hero World supported with 1’200 USD in Amed, Indonesia. Historically, in small and rural communities trash and other waste is burned – but this system is no longer viable in many areas of the world. The system simply cannot cope with the never-ending volume and the amount of plastic and other toxins in modern waste makes burning and burying this garbage potentially dangerous for animals, people and the environment.

As a region, effective waste management is a challenging process, but locally communities are taking it upon themselves to preserve their paradises. Trash Hero Amed, Indonesia has been actively cleaning the community weekly for over a year.
 
They’ve collaborated with a local non-profit, Peduli Alam, who has developed a collection system for non-organic waste, a service provided to the community free of charge. Peduli Alam has built and installed more than 200 public rubbish bins and another 350 individual bins across 700 families, local restaurants and schools. The waste is collected almost daily and transported by Peduli Alam to a regional sorting station and a landfill site. Trash Hero World supported Peduli Alam to finance a new truck so they can continue the waste removal service for the Amed community.

 

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Amelia MeierSponsor Update 2016 (Part II): Community Waste Management in Amed

Sponsor Update 2016 (Part III): T-Shirts for Indonesia

by Amelia Meier on 26/09/2016 No comments

September 26, 2016 – Trash Hero Indonesia

A third project Trash Hero World communicated to its donors was the T-Shirts that were purchased for Trash Hero Indonesia, which cost USD 1’500.

Before communities can be properly educated about the importance of waste management and recycling, awareness must already be there. 6 Trash Hero chapters (Komodo, Amed, Sanur, Ubud, Candidasa, Canggu) from Indonesia are now selling t-shirts, at no profit, in both the local language and English – all in an effort to root and spread this message. An excellent advertising tool in the Southeast Asian market, Trash Hero World has provided 500 shirts and it’s become a fashionable item of pride among many local people. Once the chapters sell the shirts they have enough money to order a new lot.

 

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Amelia MeierSponsor Update 2016 (Part III): T-Shirts for Indonesia

Collaboration with Peduli Alam

by Amelia Meier on 03/06/2016 No comments

Meaning “Protect Nature” in Indonesian, Peduli Alam was created in 2008 by French citizens and Bali lovers Charlotte Fredouille and Laetitia Girouxas  as an NGO specialising in waste management and collection in Amed, on Bali’s beautiful East coast. Among its many activities, the organisation organises awareness campaigns at schools and villages educating about waste management. The Balinese nature suffers from over-use of plastics, and locals – often poorly educated villagers (farmers and fishermen) – are not aware of the consequences of burning plastics and/or throwing these away carelessly into rivers or the ocean.

Outside cities and developed tourist areas (that represent only 10% of the island), there is often no garbage collection organised by the government. The objective of Peduli Alam therefore is to raise awareness of the results from incineration or disposal of garbage in nature. For this, Peduli Alam provides simple solutions: they build big trash bins along the coast so locals can dispose of their inorganic trash. Peduli Alam’s team then collects trash several times per month, and bring the trash to a sorting station.

Peduli Alam has collaborated with the Trash Hero Amed chapter from the very beginning in May 2015. They’re an indispensable, loyal and highly effective partner: Trash Hero Amed organises the beach clean-ups and collects rubbish with volunteers, and Peduli Alam does everything else. They supply trash bags, sticks, and gloves and, most importantly, transport the trash collected to the sorting station. Beyond that, Peduli Alam keeps part of that trash to transform it into ecobricks (see here for additional information) as well as bags made of recycled plastic.

Follow Peduli Alam here on Facebook.

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1-year Anniversary for Trash Hero Amed

by Amelia Meier on 23/05/2016 1 comment

23 May 2016 – Trash Hero Amed (Indonesia)

Happy Birthday Trash Hero Amed! This Indonesian chapter just celebrated their 52nd beach cleanup. 49 volunteers joined for this anniversary beach cleanup, gathering 103 kg of trash on the beach of Pupuan (better known as Bunutan). Music was playing while they sorted trash, deciding what to keep for the ecobrick workshops run by Trash Hero partner Peduli Alam, and what to bring to the sorting station. They even produced a video about this milestone, which you can watch here.

Several local business owners contributed to this special occasion, providing ice tea for the volunteers, as well as two delicious birthday cakes to celebrate with. A big thank you for helping to make this happen!

 

 

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Trash Hero Sanur presents at University

by Amelia Meier on 26/09/2015 No comments

26 September 2015 –

Trash Hero Sanur volunteers, alongside The Green Team Sanur, held a presentation at the University of Environment, Culture and Heritage Faculty in Bali, Indonesia today.  Their aim is to spread awareness about environmental issues, in particular the problems with trash. Informing the local community about this very real situation affecting the islands of Thailand, Indonesia, Bali and Philippines is a very important thing and the presentation was a huge success.

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Amelia MeierTrash Hero Sanur presents at University