The 6 R’s of Sustainability: REFUSE (blog 3/7)
REFUSE means trying to refuse waste coming into your household. In a series of 7 blogs, the 6 R’s of Sustainability (Review, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rethink your Residue) are explained to give practical information about what we as a consumer can do to...
World Cleanup Day: Beach Cleanup, Bazaar & Exchange waste for products
To celebrate World Cleanup Day, the ZeroWaste Center is organizing a beach cleanup and a bazaar on 18 September 2021. During the bazaar, people from the surrounding local communities can exchange their collected waste stamps for groceries. Beach Cleanup on September...
The 6 R’s of Sustainability: REVIEW (blog 2/7)
R.O.L.E. Foundation practices 6 R’s of Sustainability to reduce the amount of waste we are producing: Review, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and Rethink your Residue. In a series of 7 blogs, the 6 R’s are explained to give practical information about what we as a...
Sawangan Village Cleanup
On Monday 9 August 2021, R.O.L.E Foundation held a cleanup activity in Sawangan village. We chose this as an alternative to the monthly beach cleanup to respect the PPKM regulations. The team consisted of 23 participants, being 15 Bali WISE students and 8 staff...
The 6 R’s of Sustainability: Introduction
As most of the waste, around 80%, ends up in landfills or is littered, it’s clear we can’t go on like this. Planet Earth will turn into one pile of waste, not only on land but also in rivers and oceans. R.O.L.E. Foundation has chosen to follow 6 R’s that cover all...
Plastic waste in Indonesia during the pandemic
The pandemic is having a great impact on various sectors like education, employment, but also on people’s consumption behaviors. This has both positive and negative environmental implications. Indonesia produces a lot of waste With 260 million inhabitants,...
Plastics Waste Facts in Indonesia
Indonesia currently produces 6.8 million tons of plastic waste per year, with only about 10% of it ending up in recycling centers. Only 2% of this collected plastic waste can be recycled effectively, 14% of the plastic waste is burned, while 4% ends up in landfills....
Plastic Free July
Every year in July, Plastic Free July offers a personal challenge for people to decrease the amount of single-use plastic they are using in their daily lives. This personal challenge is part of a global effort for the oceans, for cleaner streets, and for the planet as...
The ZeroWaste Center is Temporarily Closed Due to Emergency COVID-19 Restriction
Responding to the implementation of emergency public activity restrictions policy (PPKM) in the Bali and Java area from 3rd to 20th of July, the ZeroWaste Center is temporarily closed to the public. Emergency Covid-19 Restriction in Java and Bali Following the rapidly...
ZeroWaste Soap Program Update
The Soap eco-station in the ZeroWaste Center got a make-over and is moved to a new location in the ZeroWaste Center, to make the upcycled soap production more efficient. The ZeroWaste Soap Program Every year 75 tons of soap is thrown away by hotels and villas in Bali,...
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