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Siegwerk has recently celebrated a milestone in the Project STOP waste management initiative
Global provider of printing inks and coatings for packaging applications and labels, Siegwerk recently celebrated a milestone in the Project STOP waste management initiative which it became a strategic partner of in 2020.
From 2020 to 2023, over 130,000 people received access to waste management, over 120 permanent jobs were created, and more than 5,000 metric tonnes of waste were collected in Pasuruan, East Java, and Indonesia.
As a result, the project has been further expanded with a new material recovery facility in Banyuwangi.
Having been a strategic partner of Project STOP since 2020, Siegwerk has actively supported the creation of circular waste management systems in Indonesia to remove the leakage of plastics into the environment.
The initiative was co-founded by Borealis and SYSTEMIQ in 2017, and designs, implements, and scales circular economy solutions to marine plastic pollution in Southeast Asia.
Last year, Project STOP’s first city partnership in Muncar, also located in the Banyuwangi regency in East Java, achieved all financial, governance, and technical targets. This showed that public-private partnerships can work to permanently reduce waste and plastics leakage into the environment and ocean.
On September 16th, 2023, Siegwerk was present at a ceremony in Banyuwangi to celebrate the opening of the Balak Material Recovery Facility which was co-hosted by Project STOP Banyuwangi and the Banyuwangi Government.
Ralf Hildenbrand, President Americas, Global Technology, Product Safety & Responsibility and Circular Economy at Siegwerk, comments: “Project STOP is an example of the success that can be achieved when industry and government partners collaborate effectively. For Siegwerk, this has been a very rewarding endeavour to be a part of.”
Alina Marm, global head of sustainability and circular economy at Siegwerk, adds: “It is so important to think in terms of systems if we hope to tackle the plastic waste crisis. This means reducing packaging or designing packaging that can be recycled or reused, and additionally paying attention to waste collection and management infrastructures in areas where these aspects might be falling short.
“Siegwerk is dedicated to enabling circular packaging through innovation and design, and this inauguration is a celebration of achieving success in the waste management sphere as well.”
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