WWF-Indonesia | Indonesia Youth Sustainability Index Report 2025

WWF-Indonesia | Indonesia Youth Sustainability Index Report 2025

This data-driven report serves as a benchmark for Indonesian youth aged 16–30 years to measure their perceptions, behaviours, and levels of engagement in sustainability practices, particularly on environmental and waste management issues. This study is based on survey with data collected from over 1,000 respondents in Jakarta, Bogor, and Depok, and is supplemented by interviews […]

SEI | A Waste Hero Alliance: Youth Visions for the inclusion and empowerment of informal waste workers in Asian Circular Cities

SEI | A Waste Hero Alliance: Youth Visions for the inclusion and empowerment of informal waste workers in Asian Circular Cities

Focusing on five areas with an impact on the livelihoods of informal waste workers, this report presents key policy recommendations ideated by youth based on inputs from informal waste workers and feedback from other stakeholders. The Waste Hero Alliance is the result of an innovative multi-stakeholder policy dialogue series that connected informal waste workers and […]

WWF | Indonesia Waste Banks Go Digital

WWF | Indonesia Waste Banks Go Digital

Case Study Indonesia: Bogor, Depok, JakartaWWF Involvement: January 2023 to December 2025Focus Area: Enabling FrameworkPSC Approach: Monitoring and AssessmentSystemic Intervention: Systems and Infrastructure Key Lessons Learned Background Aplikasi Data Sampah Indonesia (AKSI) is an Indonesian Waste Data Application, available on Apple Store and Google Play, developed to help waste banks move away from manual record-keeping […]

WWF | Hue’s City Action Plan for Clean Streets

WWF | Hue’s City Action Plan for Clean Streets

Case Study Viet Nam: HueWWF Involvement: September 2022 to December 2024Focus Area: Enabling FrameworkPSC Approach: Local Policy and RegulationSystemic Intervention: Strategy Development / Policy Advocacy Key Lessons Learned Background The journey towards “Hue – A Plastic Smart City in Central Viet Nam”, started with conducting baseline studies guided by the Plastic Smart Cities’ (PSC) Plastic […]

WWF | Recycling for Change: San Isidro’s Social Shift

WWF | Recycling for Change: San Isidro’s Social Shift

Case Study Philippines: San IsidroWWF Involvement: October 2022 to December 2024Focus Area: Recovery and RecyclingPSC Approach: Community-based Waste ManagementSystemic Intervention: Systems and Infrastructure Key Lessons Learned Background This initiative focuses on enhancing waste collection, processing, and value recycling to improve integrated solid waste management while promoting social inclusion and gender equity in San Isidro’s waste […]

ICLEI | City Practitioners Handbook: Reuse Starter Kit for Food and Beverages

ICLEI | City Practitioners Handbook: Reuse Starter Kit for Food and Beverages

Driven by changing lifestyles, increasing urbanization, and the rise of fast food, disposable packaging was marketed as hygienic, time-saving, and economically efficient. These items—plastic cutlery, expanded polystyrene (EPS), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles, symbolized progress and mobility in a society increasingly shaped by consumerism and on-the-go consumption patterns. Today, urban environments are overwhelmed by the […]

Rare, GEF, SGP, UNDP | Solutions to Plastic Pollution with Community-Based Behavior Change

Rare, GEF, SGP, UNDP | Solutions to Plastic Pollution with Community-Based Behavior Change

Plastic pollution is a global crisis impacting natural systems, wildlife, and human health. Nations are currently negotiating a high-level treaty to coordinate efforts to reduce plastic use worldwide (Chen, Sulan et al., 2024). No single solution can solve this crisis. Tackling plastic pollution requires changes at every stage of production and use: governments must enact […]

OECD | Regional Plastics Outlook for Southeast and East Asia

OECD | Regional Plastics Outlook for Southeast and East Asia

According to the OECD’s Regional Plastics Outlook for Southeast and East Asia, the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) region—comprising the 10 ASEAN Member States alongside China, Japan, and Korea—accounts for nearly one-third of global plastics use and over one-third of global plastic leakage. Without intervention, regional plastic waste generation is projected to more than double from […]

WWF | Surat Thani’s Pathway to Waste Bank Success

WWF | Surat Thani’s Pathway to Waste Bank Success

Case Study Thailand: Surat ThaniWWF Involvement: January 2023 to December 2024Focus Area: CollectionPSC Approach: Community-based Waste ManagementSystemic Intervention: Systems and Infrastructure Key Lessons Learned Background Lung Dum waste bank started in the Wat Potawas Temple Community of Surat Thani, Thailand. Founded by the community leader Mr. Lapon Phuekdej, also known as “Lung Dum” or “Uncle […]