Adhitya Prayoga: Waste Management Needs a Multi-discipline Approach, Not Just Environmental Experts

Indonesia, with its diverse landscapes and burgeoning population, faces significant waste management challenges. In recent years, a new wave of entrepreneurial spirit has emerged to address these issues, giving rise to waste management start-ups that are pioneering innovative solutions across the archipelago.

Amidst these challenges, visionary entrepreneurs are stepping up to drive change and Waste4Change has become one of the pioneer companies founded in 2014 that carries steps for waste management in Indonesia.

There Are Increasing Numbers of Waste Management? Startups, What About the Experts?

Increasingly, in 2023 waste management start-ups are starting to appear that are leveraging technology, sustainable practices, and community engagement to revolutionize the sector.

But there is one problem from the vague waste management sector.

The development of start-ups and waste management solutions in Indonesia has some of the biggest bottlenecks and requires the skills and knowledge possessed by people who will or are currently working in the waste management sector.

Adhitya Prayoga , our Head of Responsible Waste Management shared his point of view regarding skills and knowledge in the field of waste management, not environmental engineering which is most needed, not also related to waste management.

So what?

The Biggest Problem and Required Skills

The problem of waste in Indonesia is not only the involvement of one party, but many stakeholders, from the government to the general public.

According to Adhit, after 5 years he has been involved in the waste industry, waste problems cannot be solved only by people with an environmental education background.

The biggest bottleneck in the waste management sector nowadays is communication, public policy, community awareness, social and politics.?

To be able to overcome these various bottlenecks, Adhit said that as a graduate of Environmental Engineering from Tampere University , when he started working in the world of solid waste, he felt a lack of knowledge related to behavioral change, statistics, and communication. Even Adhit said his environmental knowledge was useless

"No matter how good the environmental engineering is, how good the logistics are, how good the waste management is, if we can't really raise people's awareness of sorting the waste, we can't convince the decision maker to do this, or we don't have clear financial calculations. Not gonna happen.”

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