JAKARTA, NNC - The key to solving plastic waste problems is to reduce the consumption of disposable plastics, said Greenpeace Indonesia Urban Campaigner, Muharram Atha Rasyadi.

"The only key to reduce plastic waste is to reduce its consumption," said Atha in his press release on Monday (3/26/2018).

According to him the trend of consuming items in disposable plastic packaging continues to increase. One of them can be seen from the development of bottled drinking water production, where 40 percent of its production is bottled water.

Atha said the behavior is a lifestyle that is harmful to the environment. Therefore, there needs to be more stringent government policies and breakthrough changes in the business model from producers to reducing the use of disposable packaging, as well as communities, to encourage the change in daily behavior by avoiding disposable packaging.

He further said only nine percent of the world's plastic waste is recycled, and most of the rest is likely to end up in landfills, waterways, polluting rivers and seas.

The findings of plastic particles on a number of packaging beverage brands further strengthens the urgency of the reduction of consuming disposable plastic packaging.

"In the momentum of World Water Day, we should not forget the seriousness of availability and the poor quality of our drinking water sources caused by unsustainable consumption, weakness of the waste management system, the pollution of industrial chemicals and other pollutants, and controlling the consumption of disposable plastic packaging, "explained Atha.