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Indonesia Sets Plan to Reduce Marine Waste by 2025

December 16, 2019

Via: Waste360

An Indonesian government official has announced that the government plans to implement a measure to limit single-use plastics in order to reduce ocean pollution by 70 percent by 2025, the Hurriyet Daily News reports.

The announcement was initially made at the 2017 World Oceans Summit in Nusa Dua, Bali. At the time, Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan pledged to spend up to $1 billion annually to reduce marine waste by 70 percent by 2025.

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