Plastic Waste Exhibition Show 3544 used bottles Remind the threat of Single-use Plastic

Visitor feel happy to be in Plastic Waste (Thursday 2/9/2021)

 

Concerned about lowering the awareness of residents who continue to throw plastic waste into the river and the government's reluctance to provide waste processing facilities, Ecoton conducts education on the dangers of single-use plastic waste through the Plastic Waste Installation Exhibition. The plastic museum exhibition 3F (Fish Fersus Flastic) made of plastic collected by the Relawan Sungai Nusantara expedition team in plastic tree operations, Ecoton built 4 plastic installations. Aims to educate to reduce the use of single-use plastic which pollutes Indonesia's rivers.

"The condition of plastic waste pollution in the rivers of East Java, especially in urban areas such as Surabaya, Sidoarjo, Mojokerto and Gresik, can no longer be tolerated, people arbitrarily throw garbage into the Brantas river, there are more than a thousand locations where garbage is piled up along Brantas, 55% is in the form of plastic waste. single-use plastics which will be broken down into microplastics” said Firly Mas'ulatul Janah, furthermore, the coordinator of the 3F Plastic Museum Exhibition stated that to build the installation hallway, 3544 single-use plastic bottles were needed which were collected from the Brantas River in Jombang, Wonokromo River in Surabaya, Marmoyo River in Mojokerto , shipping times in Sidoarjo and plastic waste from cleaning activities for the Kali Brantas trees that are entangled in plastic waste. In this exhibition, visitors are invited to explore underwater life which shows the suffering of the fish that live at the bottom of the river side by side with plastic waste. "In this exhibition, 4 main boots were built in the form of a 12-meter long plastic bottle aisle, a 6-meter high crackle bag tower, plastic trees and a diaper net in the form of an 8-meter long fishing net filled with diaper waste and plastic cups," Firly continued.

Exhibition Curator, M Arifin posing in one of exhibition Boots (2/9/2021)

Ecoton's findings show that there are more microplastics than plankton in the Brantas river. UNEP predicts that in 2050 the amount of plastic will be more than fish.

 Indonesia plastic waste emergency

“Every year, Indonesia produces 8 million tons of plastic waste and only 3 million tons are managed, most of which is 5 million tons that is not managed. Some of them are burned, dumped and dumped into rivers, around 2.6 million tons are poured into rivers and eventually end up in the sea," Firly explained, further that this alumni of Airlangga University anthropology explained that Indonesia is the second largest plastic waste contributor after China. "Every year we (Indonesia) contributed 3.2 million tons of plastic waste to the oceans, the second most at the global level, China contributed 6.4 million tons of plastic waste to the oceans," said Firly.It's time to #stop eatingplastic by reducing the use of single-use plastics (mineral drinking water bottles, sachets, crackle bags, straws, diapers and styrofoam).