jambit supports Sungai Watch
It’s that time of the year again – Christmas is around the corner. The gingerbread in the supermarket, the cold time of the year and the gift season surprise us like every year. But once again, we at jambit are well prepared. Our gift in form of a Christmas donation has been fixed a long time ago. According to our tradition, our jambitees again collected ideas, voted and decided which social project we support with a donation.
Drum roll…the jambit Christmas donation 2022 goes to Sungai Watch.
Back to the roots
Therefore, we literally go back to our roots. jambit – founded while reading a coffee guide in 1999 in a café at Viktualienmarkt and named after the best coffee plantation of the Indonesian island Java, which was described in the guide. In this sense, our donation this year floats out of Germany directly heading into the rivers of Indonesia to Sungai Watch.
Combating the plastic pollution, the river warriors have installed almost 200 swimming barriers in Bali since the project started in August 2020. They absorbed and disposed more than 750,000 kgs of plastic from the rivers like this.
Furthermore, they regularly organize community cleanups and provide education sessions in communities and the local population to change their throw-away behavior and to find better solutions for the waste management. We support exactly those initiatives with our donation and help to protect our environment sustainably.
Cleaning rivers with barriers
More than 80% of plastic pollution in the ocean comes originally from rivers and streams. From once barriers over nets and cages to blocks, Sungai Watch now found the perfect instrument with their swimming barriers to absorb the waste from the rivers before it goes in the ocean. Recently, they are even developing a barrier variant, which can be made of 100% recycled waste.
They filter the waste from the rivers in Bali. They are now on a mission to place trash barriers in every river in Indonesia by 2025 and eventually the world.
Daily work of 50 diligent river warriors from Sungai watch on site:
- free barriers from trash
- sort the collected waste in categories
- analysis and recording
- wash, shred the trash and prepare for recycling
- experiment to turn the waste into products
Emergency cleanups & approaches for more sustainable disposal solutions
Sungai Watch regularly organizes important cleanup activities at illegal dumps and along the riverbanks to prevent plastic from entering rivers. Unfortunately, illegal trash disposal is a big problem in Bali as there are no local waste disposal solutions, for example in distant parts of the island.
Furthermore, heavy budget cuts for the waste industry due to COVID and a lacking infrastructure led to the fact that only 4% of plastics are recycled. Sungai Watch works on a long-term strategy to improve the waste management in Bali and on an implementation of a proper waste industry at local level.
Be like jambit and support Sungai Watch!
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