Efforts to Reduce Millions of Plastic Bags

Approximately 150 million plastic bags last year is expected to be reduced through diet campaigns plastic bags , according to Indonesian Greeneration .

Organization - which established the Muhammad Wise Junerosano - forming diet movement Plastic Bags four years ago with a campaign in major cities in Indonesia .

Efforts to reduce plastic waste is also done by setting up a business unit called bagGoes , shopping bags to replace plastic bags .

Yadi Irawan , BagGoes bag manager , said in the last four years is steadily increasing production of bags .

And last year , said Yadi , through about 40 home-based business partners , approximately 150 thousand units sold bags .

" This bag can be used at least 1,000 times , and in 2013 production reached 150,000 bags . So stay multiplied and reduce approximately 150 million plastic or crackle , " said Yadi while visiting one of the partners in Baleendah , south London .

The amount of plastic waste in Indonesia reached approximately 26,000 tons per day , according to data from the Ministry of Environment .
However Yadi acknowledge that they have achieved a new range in the upper middle class society through retail sales and orders various companies and agencies .

" Using the most widely crackle in the markets and as long as there is no pressure and regulation of companies that manufacture , efforts to reduce the use of plastic bags will be difficult , " he added .
Promotion of environmental lifestyle .

This year , the production of bags that can be used repeatedly is planned to more than 200,000 , said Yadi , including retail and orders through various companies and agencies .

Organizations of which promote environmentally friendly lifestyles Junerosano was formed in 2005 over concerns the problem of waste and its impact on Indonesia.

Greeneration become social entrepreneurs three years after its formation .

" BagGoes bag business unit has a high social impact by 46 trained partners today , " said Junerosano who was called Sano .
" So far , we sense the level of awareness in addressing the increasing problem of plastic waste . Proof more and more that support the campaign diet of plastic bags , " said Junerosano .

" And the evidence again , this movement into a movement with a cross organization incorporated in Indonesia Movement Diet Plastic Bags , " he added .

But in practice , Sano said many people who should be involved , including local governments and various agencies and companies .