18 December 2016 – Trash Hero Indonesia
Trash Hero Indonesia has just been reported on in an extended segment on the Czech news: watch it here. Awesome team (led, among others, by longtime hero Jan Bares) doing awesome work!
read more21 November 2016 – Trash Hero Indonesia Chapters
Trash Hero Indonesia has just added up all that they have accomplished: Altogether, the Indonesian chapters have cleaned up 36 Tons, creating and educating 6’250 people in the process. Trash Hero Indonesia is getting stronger and stronger.
A huge thank you to all the chapters involved in this amazing effort: Amed, Sanur, Gili Meno, Ubud, Candidasa, Komodo, and Canggu. You guys rock!
read moreSeptember 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.
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.
read more23 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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