River Warrior : "The United States must stop sending plastic waste to Indonesia!"

Aeshnina Holding a plastic trash bag from the target supermarket

Following up on ongoing shipments of plastic waste from the United States to Indonesia,  We from the River Warrior Community are protesting against the policy of the United States Government which still  exports trash to Indonesia, River Warrior urges the United States Government:

1. Stop sending mixed and dirty paper and plastic waste to Indonesia

2. Clean up piles of plastic waste dumped in rural areas around the paper factory that originated in the United States

3. Become a member country of the Basel Convention to support fair and responsible plastic waste management

4. Managing waste in their own country and not turning developing countries into landfills

5. Tighten supervision at US ports so that no more mixed and dirty plastic and paper waste is sent back to Indonesia.

 This protest was carried out because 3 containers of LDPE plastic waste were still being sent from  California to the Port of Belawan, Medan. This activity is clearly illegal because as a country that has  ratified the Basel Convention it is not allowed to accept plastic waste / waste from the United States which is not a member of the Basel Convention. "This type of LDPE plastic waste has a very high level of contamination and is difficult to recycle,  this is unfair because the United States should put a brake on shipping plastic waste to developing countries like Indonesia," said Thara Bening Sandrina Captain River Warrior. River Warrior is a youth organization that  focuses on handling and preventing plastic waste pollution in the Brantas River.

United States Unchanged

"In 2019, the United States promised to improve its waste and recycling management and  contribute to efforts to tackle global plastic waste pollution.  However, this is contrary to the fact that the number of used plastic exports from the United States  to poor countries has increased from 45 million tons to 48 million tons in January 2021, " said Aeshnina Azzahra aqilani, Co-Captain of River Warrior Indonesia,  who once sent a letter of protest to Donald Trump, the President of the United States  to stop sending plastic waste to Indonesia. The plan is that River Warriors Indonesia will hold a protest in front of  the Consulate General of the United States in Surabaya. "This protest action  asks the United States Government to become a member of the Basel Convention and no longer  send plastic waste to developing countries like Indonesia," said Aeshnina. Aeshnina continued,  saying she would ride a bicycle with 10 of her friends to the consulate general of the United States on Thursday, March 25, 2021