A Systems Analysis Approach to Reduce Plastic Waste in Indonesian Societies (PISCES)
Lead Research Organisation:
Brunel University London
Department Name: Life Sciences
Abstract
Context - Leakage of plastic waste into the environment in Indonesia is amongst the highest in the world. Only 39% of all waste is collected and 6 million tons of waste per annum is either burnt or dumped into the environment where it contaminates the air, soil, ground water, rivers and oceans damaging ecosystems and their services. In 2017, the Indonesian government introduced an ambitious target to reduce marine plastic debris by 70% by 2025. Yet social, behavioral, economic, political and infrastructural challenges hamper progress across the country's 17,000 islands. Production and consumption of plastic and plastic leakage are driven by multiple linked human decisions and practices that are not easily disentangled into specific, manageable problems. We need a better understanding of the nature of these individual aspects and that of the relationships that link them together.
Aims - To address this challenge, we will conduct a scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms.
Objectives -
1) We will research sources, pathways and fate of plastic waste in the environment, using state of the art modelling of plastic use, waste generation and littering to estimate the volumes of plastic flows reaching the land, rivers and seas around Indonesia. We will do this at national scale and in more detail at two case study sites in Pasuran, East Java and Jembrana, Bali. We will use this data to identify hotspots to prioritize sites for calibration and validation of the model and to inform government intervention programmes
2) We will calibrate and validate the models by doing litter surveys at a range of hotspot locations to count and categorize different items of waste and litter from the point of release into the environment and at increasing distances from the source to the sea.
3) We will examine impacts of plastic waste leakage on ecosystem services, ecosystem functions and social and economic structures.
4) We will use focus groups and surveys to increase our understanding of human behavioural and cultural factors associated with the consumption, use and disposal of plastic products
5) We will harmonise the collection of various mass and monetary data types under an analytical framework that seeks to assess the complex value of plastic flows positive (profit, benefit) or negative (cost, impact). Considering all environmental, economic, social, technical and political domains the framework allows for a whole-system assessment to support informed decision-making. Optimisation of the system not only facilitates the recovery of plastic resources but also ensures that impacts on society and the environment are fully considered. Using advanced modelling approaches within this framework, we will identify the most effective points to intervene, in order to create value from plastic waste and maximise the efficiency of identified solutions.
6). We will involve users and multiple stakeholders in "living laboratory experiments" co-creating, testing and observing new solutions and organizational structures. We will examine integrated sets of design interventions (at product, business model, behavior change, waste management levels), pproviding guidance as to where successful interventions can be made, and indicating how changes in the political and legal framework can be instrumental in the better management of resources at different levels of the economy.
Benefits - Our multi-stakeholder team includes action delivery partners who are designing and implementing change programmes on the ground and local and national governments. Our research is designed to inform and add value to these programmes, driving inter-connectivity between academia and government, established public-private partnerships, implementation programmes.
Aims - To address this challenge, we will conduct a scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms.
Objectives -
1) We will research sources, pathways and fate of plastic waste in the environment, using state of the art modelling of plastic use, waste generation and littering to estimate the volumes of plastic flows reaching the land, rivers and seas around Indonesia. We will do this at national scale and in more detail at two case study sites in Pasuran, East Java and Jembrana, Bali. We will use this data to identify hotspots to prioritize sites for calibration and validation of the model and to inform government intervention programmes
2) We will calibrate and validate the models by doing litter surveys at a range of hotspot locations to count and categorize different items of waste and litter from the point of release into the environment and at increasing distances from the source to the sea.
3) We will examine impacts of plastic waste leakage on ecosystem services, ecosystem functions and social and economic structures.
4) We will use focus groups and surveys to increase our understanding of human behavioural and cultural factors associated with the consumption, use and disposal of plastic products
5) We will harmonise the collection of various mass and monetary data types under an analytical framework that seeks to assess the complex value of plastic flows positive (profit, benefit) or negative (cost, impact). Considering all environmental, economic, social, technical and political domains the framework allows for a whole-system assessment to support informed decision-making. Optimisation of the system not only facilitates the recovery of plastic resources but also ensures that impacts on society and the environment are fully considered. Using advanced modelling approaches within this framework, we will identify the most effective points to intervene, in order to create value from plastic waste and maximise the efficiency of identified solutions.
6). We will involve users and multiple stakeholders in "living laboratory experiments" co-creating, testing and observing new solutions and organizational structures. We will examine integrated sets of design interventions (at product, business model, behavior change, waste management levels), pproviding guidance as to where successful interventions can be made, and indicating how changes in the political and legal framework can be instrumental in the better management of resources at different levels of the economy.
Benefits - Our multi-stakeholder team includes action delivery partners who are designing and implementing change programmes on the ground and local and national governments. Our research is designed to inform and add value to these programmes, driving inter-connectivity between academia and government, established public-private partnerships, implementation programmes.
Organisations
- Brunel University London (Lead Research Organisation)
- Asian Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Bandung Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Natural Environment Research Council (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN (Collaboration)
- Indonesian Institute of Sciences (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (Collaboration)
- Esa Unggul University (Collaboration)
- University of Plymouth (Collaboration)
- Airlangga University (Collaboration)
- Enviu (Collaboration)
- Government of Indonesia (Collaboration)
- Udayana University (Collaboration)
- Indian Institute of Science Bangalore (Collaboration)
- Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) (Collaboration)
- Green Books.org (Project Partner)
- Plastic Oceans (Project Partner)
- Enviu (Netherlands) (Project Partner)
- International Solid Waste Assoc (ISWA) (Project Partner)
- Pasuruan Regency Environmental Agency (Project Partner)
- Indonesia State Ministry of Environment (Project Partner)
- Precious Plastic Ciledug (Project Partner)
- GIRAFFE INNOVATION CONSULTANTS (Project Partner)
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (Project Partner)
- Mura Technology Limited (Project Partner)
- APPI (Indonesian Financial Serv Assoc) (Project Partner)
- Indonesian Waste Platform (Project Partner)
- Waste4Change (Project Partner)
- Waste Mgt Associ Indonesia (APSI) (Project Partner)
- Wrap (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- INAplas Indonesian Olefin Plastic Assoc (Project Partner)
- SYSTEMIQ (Project Partner)
- PARAGITA Foundation (PG Paragita Garut) (Project Partner)
- Government of Malaysia (Project Partner)
Publications
Terzioglu N
(2024)
Archetypes to categorise upstream packaging strategies for a circular economy
in Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances
Henderson L
(2023)
Global perceptions of plastic pollution: The contours and limits of debate
in Cambridge Prisms: Plastics
Voronkova A
(2023)
Oceans and Human Health
Velis CA
(2022)
Plastic pollution global treaty to cover waste pickers and open burning?
in Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Thompson RC
(2022)
Plastics treaty - research must inform action.
in Nature
Description | ADB seminar series |
Geographic Reach | Asia |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
Impact | Better understandig of plastic pollution and circular economy associated asptexc of ABD staff and beyong in the ASEAN region. |
Description | EU Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership |
Geographic Reach | Europe |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://www.bluepartnership.eu/news/paving-way-blue-transformation |
Description | Elected Chair of the Partnership of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in North Devon, 2019- |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | Adopted Marine Natural Capital Plan developed through the Marine Pioneer of the 25 Year Environment Plan and Natural Capital Strategy through its Landscape Pioneer |
URL | https://www.northdevonbiosphere.org.uk |
Description | Gave evidence to shape UK plastics policy |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://consult.defra.gov.uk/environmental-quality/consultation-on-proposals-to-ban-commonly-littere... |
Description | Recorded dialogue with Amanda Solloway MP, Minister for Science, Research & Innovation for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office COP26 activities |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
Description | Speaker in the 'Unpacking the circular economy: refill and reuse in packaging solutions' round-table - organised by the All-Party Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group and Policy Connect |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/events/unpacking-circular-economy-refill-and-reuse-packaging-soluti... |
Description | Written evidence to shape Scottish plastics policy |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
URL | https://www.gov.scot/publications/draft-environmental-protection-single-use-plastic-products-oxo-deg... |
Description | • Defra's Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) Conference 2023 (Birmingham, October 2023) Panel Member in session: How, when, and why should natural capital evidence and approaches be used in policy and decision making? |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/natural-capital-and-ecosystem-assessment-programme/natura... |
Description | Social Dimensions of Plastics: Providing Innovate UK funding for a studentship in Plastics, Communications, Behaviours and Social Change |
Amount | £52,886 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/Y000196/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2023 |
End | 03/2027 |
Title | Novel rapid litter survey to quantify and characterise plastic pollution. |
Description | The development of a novel methodology to accurately record the quantities of plastic pollution and the surrounding commercial and waste management infrastructures across different environments and road types. This allows a detail analysis of the types of plastic leakage into the envrionment over large spatial scales in a time efficient approach. |
Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
Year Produced | 2022 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Local Indonesian teams have subsequently been trained with this co-devloped method developed by UK and Indonesian researchers. The method has been utilised across 20 different Kecamatans of Indonesian at two time points within the Indonesian dry season (May-November 2022). The method will be incorporated into longer term plastic pollution assessments by the national research and Innovation agency (BRIN) in Indonesia. |
Title | estimation method /model related to economic impacts of floods on drainage infrastructure in Indonesia |
Description | WP3 AIT team developed estimation method /model to understand damage/impact of flooding related to plastics in engineering structure on national economy under task 3.4 |
Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
Year Produced | 2023 |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | None as yet |
Description | Consortium bid: Green Economy Centre call |
Organisation | University of Aberdeen |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Bid will mobilise insights from PFP including horizon scanning public concerns/ perceptions of risks related to transitioning to a new system and the role of media in mitigating or fuelling barriers. Lesley Henderson will also add capability on involving rural, urban communities in Scotland so a focus would be to ensure it was an inclusive transition. |
Collaborator Contribution | Large consortium bid led by University of Aberdeen with the support and backing of Strathclyde and the wider HEI and stakeholder community to lead a pan-Scottish bid to meet the UKRI Green Economy Centre |
Impact | N/A yet |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Consortium bid: Green Economy Centre call |
Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Bid will mobilise insights from PFP including horizon scanning public concerns/ perceptions of risks related to transitioning to a new system and the role of media in mitigating or fuelling barriers. Lesley Henderson will also add capability on involving rural, urban communities in Scotland so a focus would be to ensure it was an inclusive transition. |
Collaborator Contribution | Large consortium bid led by University of Aberdeen with the support and backing of Strathclyde and the wider HEI and stakeholder community to lead a pan-Scottish bid to meet the UKRI Green Economy Centre |
Impact | N/A yet |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | DTC: Social Dimensions of Plastics |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Lesley Henderson set up a successful doctoral training centre focused on social dimensions of plastics at the University of Strathclyde which significantly helps build capacity in relation to the next generation of plastics researchers who are trained in interdisciplinary working on real world solutions. Waste, circular economy and sustainability challenges lie at the heart of UKRI Challenge Led initiatives and require interdisciplinary approaches. Our partners include NERC, FSG Packaging, Wastebuster. Set up the new Centre and leveraged funding from NERC (£52,886k) Wastebuster & FSG Packaging (£84k) and match funding from the Centre to support 3 students for 3.5-4 years. |
Collaborator Contribution | University of Strathclyde provide setting for this DTC |
Impact | 3 PhD students in Journalism, Media & Communications supported and supervised by staff from JMC and psychology. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | DTC: Social Dimensions of Plastics |
Organisation | University of Strathclyde |
Department | Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences (HaSS) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Lesley Henderson set up a successful doctoral training centre focused on social dimensions of plastics at the University of Strathclyde which significantly helps build capacity in relation to the next generation of plastics researchers who are trained in interdisciplinary working on real world solutions. Waste, circular economy and sustainability challenges lie at the heart of UKRI Challenge Led initiatives and require interdisciplinary approaches. Our partners include NERC, FSG Packaging, Wastebuster. Set up the new Centre and leveraged funding from NERC (£52,886k) Wastebuster & FSG Packaging (£84k) and match funding from the Centre to support 3 students for 3.5-4 years. |
Collaborator Contribution | University of Strathclyde provide setting for this DTC |
Impact | 3 PhD students in Journalism, Media & Communications supported and supervised by staff from JMC and psychology. |
Start Year | 2023 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | Airlangga University |
Country | Indonesia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | Asian Institute of Technology |
Country | Thailand |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | Bandung Institute of Technology |
Country | Indonesia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | Enviu |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | Esa Unggul University |
Country | Indonesia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | Government of Indonesia |
Country | Indonesia |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | Indian Institute of Science Bangalore |
Country | India |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | Indonesian Institute of Sciences |
Country | Indonesia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. |
Collaborator Contribution | Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. |
Impact | We propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | Indonesian Institute of Sciences |
Country | Indonesia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS) |
Country | Indonesia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | Udayana University |
Country | Indonesia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | University of Leeds |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | Partnership to Prevent Plastic Pollution in Indonesian Environments and Societies (PISCES) |
Organisation | University of Plymouth |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PI Professor Susan Jobling, aquatic ecotoxicologist (WOS >20,000 citations; H index 44) brings a 15 year record of interdisciplinary research leadership experience. As Founder and Director of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies since 2014, Jobling provides strategic leadership for Institute members (c. 150 members and 68 collaborating countries) from a wide variety of disciplines. The PISCES team draws on the membership of the Institute and on the Indian Ocean Plastics in Society Research and Innovation Hub https://www.plasticsinsociety.global/ which Jobling set up. It balances experienced leaders and early career researchers with excellent track records (>£100M in research funding; >1000 papers cited over 50,000 times within the last decade alone). The project will benefit from a wealth of previously and currently funded projects awarded to the team. Dr Eleni Iacovidou will lead WP 5. Iacovidou is an expert in methods and metrics for assessing the sustainability of resource recovery systems. With Velis, she pioneered a new multidimensional whole systems assessment approach, 'Complex Value Optimisation for Resource Recovery' (CVORR), that combines environmental, economic engineering and social science disciplines to prevent dissipation of value into waste and optimise the complex value of the whole system. Ceschin (BUL) will lead WP6. Lecturer in Design for Sustainability, Ceschin has 13 years of experience in design for sustainability and circular economy. He is expert in innovation of productservice systems integrating socio-ethical, environmental and economic sustainability principles and in co-design methods and tools to support participatory activities. He has been PI and Co-I in 21 international and national research projects and has explored business models to shift from single use to reusable packaging systems ('OpenFood' EPSRC; 2013-2018). He has experience in capacity building, knowledge transfer and co-design in low- and middle-income countries, having led the International Learning Network on Sustainability (EU-AsiaLink and ERASMUS+) on design for sustainability and circular economy. |
Collaborator Contribution | To advance state of the art modelling approaches to understand the sources and pathways of plastic waste and identify hotspots, CoI Dr Costas Velis, will lead WP1. Velis is an international expert and advisor on plastics pollution and expert in waste and resource challenges in the Global South. He leads the International Solid Waste Association's (ISWA) Marine Litter Task Force, liaising with key relevant stakeholders in international fora. Velis led the development of 4 different modelling approaches to quantify pollution from macro-plastic waste: the "ISWA Plastics Pollution Calculator" (adopted by Government of Bali), the "SPOT global model" (applied by UN-Habitat to identify waste hotspots in Africa and South Asia), "Zero Leakage by 2040" (for Pew Trust and SYSTEMIQ), and "Waste Flow Diagram" which perform rapid estimations of plastics pollution at city level, in line with SDG11.6.1 He co-created a series of holistic systems assessment tools for resource recovery from waste. The WP1 team will be enhanced through collaboration with Dr Emenda Sembiring the Head of ITB Solid and Hazardous Waste Laboratory who will co-lead WP1. Sembiring is a leading expert in solid waste characterisation and management with substantial experience leading solid waste management and recycling and sustainable packaging studies for government and industry. Sembiring led the creation of a multi-sectoral Indonesian Plastics in Society Research and Innovation network, part of a multi-country team for the GCRF Global Challenge Hub proposal "Plastics in Society" in collaboration with Jobling.Working closely with WP1, UoP Professor of Marine Biology Professor Richard Thompson OBE and Dr Muhammad Reza Cordova (LIPI), will lead WP2. Cordova has ten years experience working on marine pollution as an ecotoxicologist, including the distribution, occurence and toxicology of marine debris and microplastic in Indonesian Seas. With LIPI members CoI's Nurhati (Journal Editor for Marine Research in Indonesia) and Falahudin, he published a Nature Scientific Reports paper on marine litter focusing on nine rivers in Jakarta and a study of 18 beaches across the Western shores of Indonesia for the Indonesian Government. Thompson is internationally recognised for his research on microplastics, with numerous highly cited papers (many with the Co-Is). His work is supported by NERC, EU Defra and Leverhulme Trust.WP3 will be led by Professor Mel Austen, Head of Sea and Society at PML. Her research integrates (inter alia) marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, ecosystem modelling, marine ecosystem services, environmental economics, human wellbeing and other social sciences and aims to support application of the natural capital approach, policy development and management for sustainable ecosystems in the UK and internationally. Dr Radisti Praptiwi (Universitas Essa Unggul), a Blue Communities collaborator, will contribute research on ecological monitoring and exploring social-ecological interactions in coastal communities in Indonesia. Currently leading research with local communities mapping ecosystem services and valuation in Taka Bonerate Kepulauan Selayar Biosphere Reserve, she is designing participatory action research to change attitudes and behaviour of individuals faced with social-environmental challenges. To inform the marine ecosystems services valuation, Dr Gede Hendrawan Senior Lecturer, and Head of the Marine Computation Laboratory at the Department of Marine Sciences, University of Udayana (UoU) will co-lead WP3 and contribute expertise in oceanographic modelling of particle transport. Hendrawan has published 40 scientific articles since 2005, including several on Marine debris, ranging from research on land based sources to litter movement at sea, supported by the Indonesian Government, CSIRO-Australia, SYSTEMIQ and the 5Gyres. In 2019, he successfully led a research team to develop baseline data for marine debris in Bali. He is part of an expert team formulating Bali's marine spatial plan and the ocean health index. Dr Furqon Azis Ismail (LIPI) will contribute on-shelf circulation and its relation with ocean dynamics. Professor Joyashree Roy (AIT and Jadavpur) will contribute evaluation of socio-economic impacts of plastic waste debris on municipalities, focusing on drainage systems. She is a National Fellow of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research,internationally recognised for her environmental economics research in developing countries and socio-economic analysis of issues around energy and water resources. Roy is an expert on multidisciplinary approaches to understanding development challenges and lead author of many global reports. She has published on producer behavior analysis and total welfare costs analysis using production function approaches. Her pioneering work on a social accounting matrix for India is very widely used. Roy has been a member of the Nobel-prize winning IPCC for the past three cycles. WP4 will be led by Professor Sabine Pahl and Dr Kayleigh Whyles, experts in public risk perceptions, behavior change applied to plastic pollution. The team in Indonesia includes Dr Eddy Setiadi Soedjono , Head of the ResearchGroup of Centers for Water and Sanitation in the Tropical area (CWASTA) in the Dept. of Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) and Dr Sudarso, Senior Lecturer of Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Airlangga University. Soedjono is Head of the Water Treatment Laboratory and an expert in community empowerment applied to waste systems in low income areas. Sudarso who will co-lead WP4, is an expert in community empowerment, poverty and gender in coastal communities. Dr Amaresh Chakrabarti (IIsc) will contribute expertise on entrepreneurship for creative manufacturable and sustainable designs.Our research programme has been designed to directly inform and enhance action programmes and plans of our Project Partners, creating a research innovation action pipeline joining academia, governments, NGOs and industry (see letters of support). These include the frontline waste collection and management programmes led by SYSTEMIQ (Project STOP and the Bali Partnership) in the two case study areas and The Coordinating Ministry of Maritime Affairs National Plastics Action Plan, on which the team will provide advice. The Indonesian Solid Waste Association will lead on logistical aspects of the data collection and field work (inputs to WP1 and 2) and on stakeholder connections (also supported by Waste for Change). As a social enterprise who ideate and incubate early stage business models, ENVIU will work with the research team to implement the design aspects of our programme (outputs from WP6). |
Impact | To address this challenge and to complement and inform both national and global efforts, we propose a comprehensive and coordinated interdisciplinary scientific research programme that brings political, environmental, economic, technical and social disciplines together to understand and address the causes of failures, rather than treating the symptoms. Our theory of change is based on the principle that in Indonesian (and other) societies effective intervention within the complex adaptive system of plastics requires a structured systems approach that develops deep interdisciplinary understanding of the nature of the complex and adaptive interactions underpinning solid (including plastic) waste management systems, together with a programme of research to trial and test combinations of solutions. The partnerships required to underpin this programme have already been secured and associated preliminary research and innovation projects are completed or on-going. Our research and innovation programme will bring us together to form a multi-national, inter-disciplinary research and innovation team. Our wider stakeholder network (see letters of support) will connect our research with and add value to numerous complementary activities both within and outside Indonesia, driving inter-connectivity between academia and established public-private partnerships. We are aware of several other proposals focused on the Indian Ocean Basin. We will maximize the collaborative efforts of non-GCRF and new GCRF-funded projects, and drive a step change in evidence to support innovation and action on plastics in society in Indonesia. |
Start Year | 2021 |
Description | A talk to a wide range of Indonesian stakeholders with interests in plastic pollution |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | Presentation of the PISCES programme to a wide range of stakeholders to gain their cooperation and collaboration |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | http://www.piscespartnership.org |
Description | Academic presentation to Canadian microplastics researchers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Lesley Henderson gave an invited paper on Social Aspects of Plastics Pollution - "Media and Microplastics: Shaping public perceptions and policy" Microplastics Research Cluster, University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://allevents.in/online/social-aspects-of-plastic-pollution/10000214390145697 |
Description | Annual Meeting of the PISCES Partnership |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Between the 16th and the 20th of May, we held our first PISCES annual meeting in Bali bringing together the entire research team, action delivery partners, and senior government representatives to discuss how our research programme can help solve Indonesia's plastic problem and to co-develop our research plans. On the opening day, we explored opportunities to integrate PISCES research with action-delivery programmes of our core partners to address Indonesia's plastic pollution challenge. Special thanks to our key action delivery partners providing insightful presentations, sharing their experiences, and covering the challenges they are addressing including speakers and guests: Dr. Novrizal Tahar (KLHK), Drs. I Made Teja (DLHK Prov Bali), Mochammad Satya Oktamalandi (InSWA), Joi Danielson (SYSTEMIQ), Marta Muslin (IWP), Mohamad Bijaksana Junerosano (W4C), Jane Fischer (Bali Waste Platform coordinator). How to ensure research informs action was subsequently discussed amongst all attendees including the Coordinating Ministry of Maritime and Investment Affairs, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Bali-Penida River Basin Organization, Development Planning Agency of Bali Province, Forestry and Environmental Agency of Bali Province, Regional Research and Innovation Agency of Bali Province, Environmental Agency of Badung Regency, Environmental Agency of Jembrana Regency, Public Work Agency of Jembrana Regency, Head of West Bali National Park Center, Environmental Agency of Banyuwangi Regency, STOP Project Jembrana, STOP Project Banyuwangi, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Indonesia. The final day of the annual meeting included two workshops on the informal recycling sector (IRS) and open burning, facilitated by Dr Costas Velis and Dr Eleni Iacovidou. Participants in the IRS mapping scenario included Griya Luhu, EcoBali, W4C, CMMI, IPI, APPI, Environmental Agency of Banyuwangi Regency, MPH, CLOCC, Delterra, Bali Waste Platform/Indonesian Waste Platform, TPST Kedonganan, and Jro Bendesa Kedonganan/TPST PPLH. The open burning workshop included speakers from the Environmental agency of Banyuwangi Regency, Mochamad Adi Septiono (Nexus3/AZWI), Ewa Wojkowska (Kopernik/Pulau Plastik), Ni Made Widiasari (Kemitraan Bali Resik). Open Discussion: - Bali Waste Platform/Indonesian Waste Platform, Kemitraan Bali Resik, Merah Putih Hijau, Kopernik/Pulau Plastik, PPLH, Project STOP Jembrana, Project STOP Banyuwangi, TPST Kedonganan, Jro Bendesa Kedonganan/TPST. Outside of the conference venue, members of WP3 and WP6 teams held a site visit to Bali Barat National Park to initiate collaboration with the local authority related to coastal and marine environmental management. The visit was facilitated through the network between Universitas Esa Unggul and Indonesian National Committee for MAB Programme (BRIN). We had productive discussions and managed to get ourselves immersed in the beautiful seascape surrounding the national park. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | http://www.piscespartnership.org |
Description | Attendance at Global Plastic Summit by Professor Susan Jobling, Professor Roy, and Dr Emenda Sembiring and Facilitation of Global Plastic Summit Working Group by Dr Eleni Iacovidou - Hosted by the Economist and Minderoo Foundation, Bangkok Working towards a robust UN plastics treaty October 11th-12th 2023 I Bangkok, Thailand |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The largest gathering of stakeholders before INC-3 to work towards the creation of a robust UN plastics treaty. At the Global Plastics Summit, senior leaders collaborated to support and influence INC decision-making. A dynamic mix of engaging plenary sessions and collaborative working groups addressed the issues at the heart of the treaty, and devised creative solutions for an ambitious treaty that addresses the entire life-cycle of plastics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://events.economist.com/global-plastics-summit/ |
Description | COP 27, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt: attended, hosted University of Plymouth Stand, gave presentations on a panel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Attended COP 27, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Manned University of Plymouth Stand explaining research to a wide footall audience, gave presentation and joined discussion on a panel 'Influence of National and Global Climate Education, Innovation, and Research on The Governmental Policies and Participation in The Green Economy' in the Climate Education Hub of Earth organization |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | COP27 - presentation Dr Emenda Sembiring |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Dr Emenda Sembiring presented on marine debris monitoring at the COP27 Climate Change conference |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Codesign workshop to ideate design solutions to tackle plastic-packaging pollution in Banyuwangi (Indonesia) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Organisation of a co-design workshop with more than 40 participants including experts, representatives from key stakeholders (industries, start-ups, practitioners) and local/national government. The workshop was held between 27 Nov - 2 Dec 2022 in Banyuwangi (Indonesia) focusing on generating ideas to tackle plastic-packaging solutions focusing on: material/packaging solutions, reusable packaging system solutions, waste management solutions, and behavioural change solutions. The design activities addressed two packaging items/functions and associated problems: 1) Sachets used for dry food (greasy food such as crisps and nuts and non-greasy food such as noodles, powdered coffee creamer, and instant coffee) 2) Packaging used for food delivery and food takeaway. Codesign WS I structure: Workshop activities are organised in 6 days: - Day 1 (half day): Workshop introduction and insights from WPs (open only to academic partners); - Day 2 (full day): Material/product design session; - Day 3 (full day): Product-service system (reusable packaging) design session; - Day 4 (full day): Waste management design session; - Day 5 (full day): Behaviour change design session; - Day 6 (half day): Overall critical reflection and next steps. Codesign workshop objectives: 1. To generate promising ideas to tackle the problems associated with dry food sachets and food delivery/takeaway packaging, bringing together researchers with multidisciplinary backgrounds and representatives from key stakeholders. In particular: a. Packaging ideas, considering materials, functional properties, usability and end-of-life options; b. Reusable packaging system ideas, considering the combination of products and services and the stakeholders involved in the system; c. Waste management ideas; d. Behaviour change ideas, with a focus on identifying strategies to support the adoption of the most promising ideas developed in the previous days. 2. To critically assess the generated ideas considering opportunities and barriers at socio-cultural, technological, economic, environmental and policy/regulatory levels. 3. To select the most promising ideas to be taken forward. Outcomes: 18 concepts were developed in total. These concepts are currently being assessed and refined. Outcomes will then integrated to develop proposals for cross-value chain solutions (i.e. integrated solutions across the plastic-packaging value chain) to be implemented in the short-, medium- and long-term. Outcomes will be used to inform a second codesign workshop (taking place in May 2023). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Conference presentation by Dr Eleni Iacovidou at the 4th Symposium on Circular Economy and Sustainability, titled "Employing a Systems Approach to Unpacking the Complexities of the Indonesian plastic value chain: Focus on Stakeholders" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited talk at an international conference entitled "Employing a Systems Approach to Unpacking the Complexities of the Indonesian plastic value chain: Focus on Stakeholders" |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Devon Lord Lieutenants Environment Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Devon Lord Lieutenants Environment Group asked me to attend their meeting and discuss some of the aspects of marine environment in Devon that they should be aware of in their roe. There was a wide ranging discussion |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Dr Emenda Sembiring - Chair of Meeting of International Waste Working Group - Asian regional branch |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The 5th Symposium of International Waste Working Group - Asian Regional Branch (IWWG-ARB) was held in Mercure Hotel, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia, starting from 6th to 8th March 2023. The objective of the IWWG was to provide an educational forum to encourage and support economic and ecological (sustainable and integrated) waste management world-wide and to promote scientific advancement in the field. This purpose will be accomplished by learning from the past, analysing the present, and thereby developing new ideas, scenarios and visions for the future. The vast amount of experience gained on a world-wide basis in the field so far, which is rather dispersive, and consequently not focused enough to influence legislation, education, or provide practical applications and move towards a more rational development of appropriate technologies, will be placed at your disposal. With this aim, the IWWG was conceived as a think based on scientific principles but essentially application oriented. In addition, the IWWG has a light, non-bureaucratic organisation which allows us to focus on a variety of subjects, react promptly to relevant problems in the field of solid waste management, and communicate effectively within the professional community. Bandung Institute of Technology hosted the 5th Symposium of International Waste Working Group - Asian Regional Branch (IWWG-ARB) in Bali, Indonesia. Abstracts were submitted and presentations delivered by Dr Costas Velis and Attar Ramadan |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://5thiwwgarbindonesia.web.id/landing/programs |
Description | Dr Emenda Sembiring - Panelist and speaker - 3rd Government-Business Dialogue Tackling Marine Litter by Seizing Circular Opportunities "Handling Marine Debris through Circularity" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The significant increase in plastic consumption along with economic and population growth has made the management of land-based plastic waste a major challenge in Indonesia. This has resulted in the increasingly complicated problem of marine debris. To address this, the Government of Indonesia issued Presidential Regulation No.83 of 2018, which targets handling 70% of marine debris by 2025. Not only related ministries and institutions, businesses and industries as well as communities also play an important role in achieving this target. As a form of support, Indonesia Business Council for Sustainable Development (IBCSD), through the Tackling Marine Litter by Seizing Circular Opportunities Program supported by SEA Circular and in collaboration with the National Coordination Team for Marine Debris Handling (TKN PSL) held a third government and business-industry dialogue with the theme "Handling Marine Debris through Circularity" on Tuesday, August 30, 2022 in a hybrid manner. Executive Director of IBCSD, Indah Budiani said that the policy has obliged manufacturers and retailers in Indonesia to be more responsible in managing waste from their products which leads to the implementation of a circular economy. IBCSD wants to facilitate various proposals and solutions such as best practices and feedback on what policies can be supported by stakeholders in handling marine debris. Dr Emenda Sembiring was a key invited panelist and speaker amongst several, namely Murboyudo Joyosuyono, Directorate of Downstream Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries of the Ministry of Industry Rima Yuliantari, Sub Directorate of Environment of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ujang Solihin, Head of Sub Directorate of Producer Management of the Directorate of Waste Reduction of KLHK and Iman Santoso, Sustainability Manager of Coca Cola Euro Pacific (CCEP) Indonesia, and moderated by IBCSD Program Manager, Aloysius Wiratmo. The central government has compiled various regulatory policies to the regions as a legal binding effort and formed the TKN PSL Team consisting of 18 ministries. KLHK as the daily coordination center of TKN PSL has made various efforts to collaborate, build public awareness, provide infrastructure assistance to local governments, strengthen waste banks and producer responsibility commitments and allocate funds to establish international cooperation. Circular economy is one of the important approaches to achieve the 30% waste reduction target by 2025. Through the implementation of PerMen LHK No. 75 of 2019 we encourage 3 principles of industrial waste management namely R1 limitation, R2 recycling, and R3 reuse of waste. This IBCSD dialog helps one of our strategies in coordinating and building awareness of various parties. In the discussion, several important points were conveyed where plastic problems arise because the plastic packaging industry is present to support other industries. Meanwhile, the uneven waste recycling industry factory and the unfinished management on land make waste accumulate in the sea. This discussion sparked all stakeholders to continue their good intentions to build an Indonesian economy that still cares about the environment. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://epr-indonesia.id/news/circular-economy-implementation-is-a-shared-responsibility |
Description | Dr Radisti Praptiwi - Discussion with stakeholders in Takalar Regency, South Sulawesi during final field validation. The discussion covers: inputs that can be used to improve habitat map accuracy, potential application of habitat sensitivity to plastics map. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Discussion with stakeholders in Takalar Regency, South Sulawesi during final field validation. The discussion covers: inputs that can be used to improve habitat map accuracy, potential application of habitat sensitivity to plastics map. Resulted in Facilitation during fieldwork (access, permits, and inputs); Discussion on potential application of WP3 mapping. Discussion included CDK Mamminasata South Sulawesi (Fisheries Agency), village government of Mattiro Baji, community organisation in Tanakeke District. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | http://www.piscespartnership.org |
Description | Dr Radisti Praptiwi - Presentation at International Workshop and Capacity Building on Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation Solutions |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | The event was organised by Indonesia MAB National Committee, ICESCO, Unesco Office Jakarta, BRIN and Local Government of Central Java. Audience included Indonesian Government (national and regional level), National Park authorities, NGOs, Universities. Date: 14-16 March 2023 Details: Radisti gave presentation in the topic of solid waste and marine litter on small island context. The talk focused on the WP3 work on habitat mapping and habitat sensitivity to plastics analysis, and how these can be used to assist stakeholders in designing interventions/management strategies related to solid waste & marine litter problems in coastal & marine context. The Indonesian National MAB Committee paid for accommodation and flights costs for Radisti to attend the meeting. Outcome included Discussion with stakeholders from Wakatobi Biosphere Reserve and Selayar Planning Agency on the possible application of habitat map and sensitivity to plastic map. Plan to hold zoom meeting to discuss this further. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | http://www.piscespartnership.org |
Description | Dr Reza Cordova - Annual report to Foreign Researchers Permit Board |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Reza Cordova presented an annual summary of our research to retain our Foreign Researchers Permit to BRIN and Inter-ministerial Board (15-16 December 2022) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Dr Reza Cordova - CNN Indonesia, 5 June 2022, CNN Indonesia News Room. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Dr Reza Cordova interviewed regarding characteristics and distribution of plastics in coastal habitats. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | http://www.piscespartnership.org |
Description | Dr Reza Cordova - Presentation at JSS and JHER workshop in India |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Summary of PISCES research presented to the JSS AHER (JSS Academy of Higher Education and Research) and NAM S&T Centre (Centre for Science and Technology of the Non-aligned and Other Developing Countries) in India. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Dr Reza Cordova Communicated activities in Road to G20 event: Beating Plastic Pollution from Source to Sea 3-4 November 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Dr Reza Cordova presented on the PISCES Partnerships activities to prevent plastic pollution at this event , which was organised by the National Plastics Action Partnership Outcome was another communication with the Ocean Cleanup (23 November 2022) regarding a potential research collaboration |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | http://www.piscespartnership.org |
Description | Dr Reza Cordova Meeting with WorldBank Indonesia (7 December 2022) to update them on marine plastic debris research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dr Reza Cordova - Communicated our research activities to the WorldBank of Indonesia (7 December 2022) in the Research Center for Oceanography during a meeting to update marine plastic debris research |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Dr Reza Cordova Presentation at Plastic Outlook for Asia meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Communicated our research activities to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) and IGES (Institute for Global Environmental Strategies) (6 December 2022) during Plastic Outlook for Asia meeting |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Dr Reza Cordova Presentation at a Symposium "Marine Plastic Debris and its Countermeasures in Asia' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Communicated research activities with the ERIA (Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia) and IDE-JETRO (Institute of Developing Economies - Japan External Trade Organization), in the Symposium "Marine Plastic Debris and its Countermeasures in Asia: Impact on Ecosystems and International Cooperation" (6-8 February 2023) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Dr Reza Cordova meeting with Provincial Government of Jakarta |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Dr Reza Cordova Communicated details of our research activities with the Provincial Government Jakarta (22 November 2022) during a meeting for beach sampling in Seribu Archipelago |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022,2023 |
URL | http://www.piscespartnership.org |
Description | Engagement with local enterprises and NGOs in Bali and East Java |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Developing partnerships and potential research collaborations with local enterprises including Sungai watch and SYSTEMIQ based in Bali and East Java. The intended impact of such collaborations is to generate research publications and wider capacity building with local groups. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Engaging in social science and communications to enhance recycling behaviour change with recycling practitioners |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Engaged with recycling practitioners to champion social science and communications approaches to recycling behaviours which engaged ongoing interest in my research with follow up requests- • 2021 (November 17) Invited Speaker "Plastics and Publics: The role of communications in meeting the recycling challenge" RECOUP industry event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.recoup.org/p/392/recoup-webinars-2022 |
Description | Futures 2021 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Schools |
Results and Impact | In September 2021, over 500 individuals and families locally and across the South West joined us to discover research across science, heritage, health and history, and meet the University of Plymouth researchers who work to make a difference to our daily lives. FUTURES2021 brought research to life in new and exciting ways online and in-person, with a whole host of events ranging from storytelling to panel discussions, comedy, quizzes and broadcasts on community radio stations. FUTURES is an annual public engagement festival dedicated to showcasing research and innovation, as part of the 2021 European Researchers' Night celebrations. With more than 300 cities across 30 European countries taking part, this exciting annual event showcases the South West's rich scientific and cultural heritage through fun, interactive learning with the Universities of Bath, Bath Spa, Bristol, Exeter and Plymouth. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/futures2021 |
Description | Hosting annual meeting of the PISCES Partnership in Banyuwangi East Java. All partners attended |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | Annual Meeting of the PISCES Partnership in Banyuwangi East Java |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Indonesian partners visit to the University of Plymouth |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Dr Emenda Sembiring and Dr Radisti Praptiwi secured funding to attend the Official Development Assistance (ODA) workshop at the University of Plymouth on 'climate change adaptation and mitigation in the Global South'. This also enabled discussions for future research opportunities amongst the PISCES UK and Indonesian researchers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Integrating Marine Litter Monitoring to Inform Action -- UN Ocean Conference Side Event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The event will address a broad variety of stakeholders including member states representatives to advocate the necessity of a global sustained Integrated Marine Debris Observing System (IMDOS) that will work hand in hand with the UNEP Global Partnership on Marine Litter to address critical knowledge gaps and other stakeholder needs, including by supporting the Digital Platform. The partnership between the IMDOS and the GPML Digital Platform will enable the accessibility of integrated data on marine litter and plastic pollution by a wide range of stakeholders. See below our final agenda! We are also planning on organising a (self-paid)dinner for those who wish to continue discussing after the event. If you are interested in joining, please sign up here: https://forms.office.com/r/C5tB1tnfkJ Getting to Cascais To get to Cascais from Lisbon, you can take a direct train (line 19001) from Lisbon Cais Do Sodre station (connected with the green metro line) to Cascais station which is also the end station. Trains depart every 10-20 minutes during the day, and travel takes 30-40 minutes. Useful travel information can be found here: https://www.rome2rio.com/map/Lisbon/Cascais Venue The UN Ocean Conference side event & Morning Forum will take place at the Centro Cultural de Cascais, Av. Rei Humberto II de Itália, 2750-642 Cascais, website: https://bairrodosmuseus.cascais.pt/list/museu/centro-cultural-de-cascais?section=0 Lunch Dialogues & Afternoon Forum will take place at the Hotel Baia - Passeio de Dom Luís I, 2754-509 Cascais, Portugal, website: https://www.hotelbaia.com/ If you have any questions or if you schedule has changed, please do not hesitate to contact me. We are looking forward to meeting you in Cascais. Best regards, Audrey HASSON, Ph.D., on behalf of the organising committee GEO Blue Planet European Coordinator @ Mercator Ocean International - EU4OCEANOBS FPI audrey.hasson@mercator-ocean.fr www.eu4oceanobs.eu www.geoblueplanet.org You can find out more about the event, context, agenda via the event website available here: https://www.eu4oceanobs.eu/marine-litter-monitoring-to-inform-action/ 8:00-8:30 Venue opens : Badges, agenda distribution etc 8:30-10:00 Official Side Event - Centro Cultural de Cascais ECOP Moderator: Delphine Lobelle (Netherlands) 8:30-8:45 Welcome notes 8:50-9:20 Keynote speech Richard Thompson (University of Plymouth) 9:20-9:30 Introduction to Panel discussion Heidi Savelli-Soderberg (UNEP) 9:30-9:40 Introduction to Panel discussion - IMDOS Alex Turra (University of Sao Paolo) 9:40-10:10 Panel Discussion Heidi Savelli-Soderberg (UNEP), Toste Tanhua (GOOS/GEOMAR), Keiji Nakashima (Ministry of the Environment, Japan), Marc Metian (UN IAEA-MEL), Alex Turra (University of Sao Paolo), Amy Lusher (NIVA, Norway) Moderator: Audrey Hasson (MOi / GEO Blue Planet) 10:10-10:30 Coffee Break 10:30-12:00 Morning Forum - Centro Cultural de Cascais ECOP moderator: Tomoko Takahashi (Japan) 10:30-10:45 GPML concept and next steps Marta Ottogalli and Saiful Ridwan (UNEP) 10:45-11:00 Data for decision making and measuring progress Nicola Balbarini, UNEP-DHI Centre on Water and Environment 11:00-11:15 IMDOS concept and next steps Artur Palacz (GOOS/IOCCP, Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland) and Stefano Aliani (ISMAR, CNR, Italy) 11:15-11:30 Harmonizing monitoring methods and sharing of data in Japan as an enabling tool to tackle ocean surface microplastics (confirmed) Keiji Nakashima (Ministry of Environment Japan MOEJ) 11:30-12:00 Panel Discussion All speakers from Morning Forum Moderator: Audrey Hasson (MOi / GEO Blue Planet) 12:00-12:30 Walk over to the Baia Hotel 12:30-13:30 Luncheon Dialogues - Baia Hotel, Cascais 13:30-14:00 Interval for refreshments 14:00-17:00 Afternoon Forum - Baia Hotel and Marina, Cascais ECOP Moderator: Christine Knauss (US) and Mafalda de Freitas (Portugal) 14:00-14:15 Remote Sensing Victor Martinez-Vicente (PML) 14:15-14:30 Modelling Atsuhiko Isobe (Kyushu University, Japan) 14:30-14:45 Sampling and Analysis Amy Lusher (NIVA, Norway) 14:45-15:00 Artificial Intelligence Carolina Sa (Moon-shot Challenge, Portugal Space Agency) and Leonardo Azevedo (CERENA-IST / Project SMART ) 15:00-15:30 Q&A discussion 15:30-16:00 Refreshments Walk from Baia Hotel to the Marina (5-10 min walk) 16:00-17:00 Live Demonstrations - Drones, Manta nets 17:00-17:30 Transition 17:30-19:30 Concluding social event - by the MV Plastic Odyssey on the Cascais marina ECOP Moderator: Refilwe Mofokeng (SA) 17:30-18 :15 Concluding Remarks 18:15-18:45 Local Solutions - Upstream (France) Plastic Odyssey 18:45-19:15 Local Solutions - Downstream (Portugal) H2020 Maelstrom |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/virtual_side_event_programme_2706.pdf |
Description | Invited speaker at the World Plastic Summit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Focus on plastic pollution, pulling together key strands of advanced research and activities on plastics across the value chain, which sparked discussions and small focus groups that led to important connections that could potentially be used to further research on the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://worldplasticssummit.org/about |
Description | JNCC-Marine Scotland workshop 'Exploring an Integrated Approach towards a Sustainable Blue Economy' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker at JNCC-Marine Scotland workshop 'Exploring an Integrated Approach towards a Sustainable Blue Economy' - I gave 2 presentations (1) Systems Thinking Approach for marine sustainability and (2) GCRF Blue Communities: Systems thinking research to advance marine spatial planning in SE Asia |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Joint Industry/ academic focused publication |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Lesley Henderson and Edward Kosior co wrote an editorial/opinion piece for industry recycling magazine Recycle Now to encourage engagement in recycling issues in the current pandemic context and publicise SSPP research involving social science and industry in a unique collaboration. Kosior, E. and Henderson, L. (2021) Opinion: Unblocking the road to plastic recycling. Let's Recycle. November 29. https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/opinion-unblocking-road-plastic-recycling/ |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.letsrecycle.com/news/opinion-unblocking-road-plastic-recycling/ |
Description | Launch of Centre for Systems Thinking: Ocean, Land and Society, Natural History Museum, - keynote speaker |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The launch of University of Plymouth's Centre for Systems Thinking: Ocean, Land and Society at the Natural History Museum, London. This was an evening dinner event attended by more than 100 invitees across all sectors. Keynote presentations were given by Prof Austen, Dr Gemma Harper of JNCC and Prof Duncan Wingham, Chief Exec of NERC |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/centre-for-systems-thinking |
Description | Marine Law Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited speaker and panellist to talk about Marine Net Gain at Marine Law Symposium: Can Offshore Wind Development Have a Net Positive Impact on Biodiversity? Regulatory and Scientific Perspectives and Considerations co-organised by The Nature Conservancy, Roger Williams University School of Law Marine Affairs Institute and the Rhode Island Sea Grant Legal Program, Rhode Island, USA, April |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://docs.rwu.edu/law_pubs_conf/179/ |
Description | Marine issues presentation to Cefas Management Board away day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited to give a presentation on current marine issues to the to Cefas Management Board at their away day to promote awareness and challenge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Meeting with Government officials and the PISCES team. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Government officials from the four divisions joined the meeting with the PISCES team. The participating divisions from the Public Works Department were Housing and Settlement (Pak Eddie), Urban planning (Pak Bayu), Drainage and Road infrastructure (Pak Febi), and Waste management and sanitation. The interactions covered aspects of drainage system designing, construction and management in Banyuwangi, the issues of flooding and plastic waste accumulation impacting the drainage system, roles of different government departments in drainage system management and waste management. Discussions also included topics of financing of the activities of the department with respect to drainage systems, sources of tax revenue and flood management. Some of the operational challenges faced by the department were also discussed at the meeting. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Online interview with government official from Provincial Development and Planning Agency, West Java Province |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Date of interview: 2 December 2022 Mode: Online- zoom Interviewers: Jeeten Kumar, Joyashree Roy, Satabdi Datta (WP3, Task 3.4) Interviewee: Mr. Nurwanto Wahyu, Program Analyst, Provincial Development and Planning Agency, West Java Province Description: The interaction, based on a semi-structured questionnaire, started with topics such as household waste management, waste collection facilities, cost implications on the households, and the responsible government departments in the region. It was followed by interaction on the hazards created by accumulation of plastic waste in drainage systems, flooding and government budget. The official also cited an example of a waste management success story in Banyumas regency in Central Java province. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | PISCES WP3 - Engagement with Bali Barat National Park authority |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Date: 20 May 2022 PISCES WP3 and WP6 (Nazli) team visited Bali Barat National Park to initiate contact and collaboration for filedwork activities related to habitat mapping. The team presented WP3 Ecosystem Services work to the head of the national park. For our initial visit during PISCES annual meeting (20 May 2022), Bali Barat National Park waived the entrance fees for foreign visitors (5 persons - Mel, Joyashree, Matt, Fiona and Nazli), and local visitors (5 persons - Radisti, Wulan, Carya, Ahmad and Pak Purwanto from MAB National Committee). For our fieldwork activities held on 17-30 June 2022, Bali Barat National Park provided in-kind contributions in covering: part of accommodation for our team, time for their staff to assist our team in data collection. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | http://www.piscespartnership.org |
Description | PISCES WP3 - talk Promoting our work on habitat mapping to local stakeholders Baubau, Southeast Sulawesi |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Senior researcher Sainal presented draft of habitat mapping to stakeholders in attempt to gather feedback to improve the accuracy. Audience included the Baubau Office of Marine and Fisheries Affairs, Local communities, Sula'a Betoambari District harbour authority. This resulted in feedback to improve map accuracy as well as a Permit to collect additional data - GPS locations for sandy beach and mangrove habitats. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | http://www.piscespartnership.org |
Description | Presentation Paper - Presentation by Dr Satabdi Datta, of econometric model results on impacts of unmanaged plastics on flood and public expenditure online at the special session on "Sustainable circular economy" of the Bi-annual conference of The International Society for Industrial Ecology, Leiden, Netherlands |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation by Dr Satabdi Datta of AIT |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Professor Joyashree Roy keynote address and panel discussion "Circular Systems Innovation for Plastic Waste" AIT Thailand |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Professor Joyashree Roy delivered keynote address and participated in panel discussion at the workshop on "Circular Systems Innovation for Plastic Waste (CSI-PW)" organized by The Center of Excellence in Nanotechnology (CoEN), Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) in collaboration with the University of Cambridge (UK) and Circularity Co., Ltd. (Thailand), November 1-2, 2022 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Professor Susan Jobling Invited Panel Member at ASEAN CONFERENCE ON COMBATING PLASTIC POLLUTION: ENHANCED SYNERGIES AND COLLABORATIVE ACTIONS 17th October 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | ASEAN to convene a conference bringing together policy makers and representatives from the private sector in the ASEAN region scheduled to be held on 17October 2023. This conference will provide a platform for knowledge exchange, collaborative discussions, and strategic planning to elevate ASEAN's response to plastic pollution including to the marine environment. By fostering multistakeholder engagement and facilitating regional cooperation, the conference aims to drive collective action, innovative solutions, and policy coherence within ASEAN to address this pressing issue.The conference is int ended to contribute to deliverables of the Indonesia Chairmanship ofASEAN 2023.he objectives, are to: 1.provide a platform for policy makers, private sectors and civil society from the ASEAN Member States (AMS), to share and exchange ASEAN's effort to address plastic pollution. 2.explore any potential areas and initiatives to strengthen ASEAN's role in supporting AMS efforts to address plastic pollution, including in the marine environment as well as enhancing their readiness to implement and comply with the International Legally Binding Instrument to End Plastic Pollution (ILBI) once it is agreed and ratified by the Member States. 3.provide recommendations for promoting and advancing an enabling condition at the ASEAN region for addressing plastic pollution, including to the marine environment, throughout its lifecycle |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Professor Susan Jobling Invited Panel Member to discuss partnerships for waste management: Opportunities and Challenges in Indonesia - at the Road to a global plastics treaty - Turning the tide on marine plastic pollution. Hosted by Royal Norwegian Embassy and UNDP Jakarta 8th November 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | A Road to Global Plastic Treaty is a joint-event serve as forum to present diverse perspectives and insight of a common goal among Indonesia stakeholders in combating the plastic pollution throughout the ongoing initiatives as well as the "proof of concepts" to be collated as input for the Indonesian Delegation to INC-3. In turn, this participation will contribute to end plastic pollution including those in marine environment, altogether with the presents of unique opportunity in implementing the transformative global policies across the plastic lifecycle. The objectives of this forum: ? To bring together the international stakeholders (private sector, international organizations and government) to showcase the innovative solutions in reducing the marine plastic pollution and build the momentum ahead of the next round of negotiations (INC-3) for a global agreement on plastic pollution. ? To discuss how the recent initiatives have taken place towards the trends in reducing marine debris and plastic pollution in Indonesia, by national, sub-national and local actors, with particular reference to INC-3, namely to: a. Strengthen waste management by investing in systems and infrastructure that facilitate environmentally responsible plastic waste management. b. Implement essential measures to meet minimum targets for reducing, reusing, refilling, and repairing. c. Identify potential areas and initiatives to enhance the roles of countries in supporting efforts to combat plastic pollution and ensure the representation of diverse perspective (especially from marginalized communicates or groups disproportionately affected by marine pollution, both in land and marine environments. Additionally, increase their preparedness to implement and adhere to the International Legally Binding Instrument to End Plastic Pollution (ILBI) once it is agreed upon and ratified by member states. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Science Communications Workshop Leader for Pan European science communications practitioners The Future of Science Communication Conference brings together European actors from research and practice of science communication. It is co-organised by Wissenschaft im Dialog, the organization for science communication in Germany, and ALLEA, the European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities.Berlin. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Engaged in leading a workshop exploring science communication in uncertain times which led to additional requests for engagement and collaboration |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://allea.org/future-of-science-communication/#:~:text=The%20Future%20of%20Science%20Communicati... |
Description | Speaker :United Nations Oceans Conference Side Event From Ambition to Action: Ending Plastic Pollution in All Environments |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | United Nations Oceans Conference Side Event From Ambition to Action: Ending Plastic Pollution in All Environments 27th June, time 6-8pm, commencing after the interactive dialogues on marine pollution Location: Ikonik Hotel Lisboa (approx. 10mins walk from Blue Zone) Speakers ? Jo Royle, Founder and CEO, Common Seas ? Dr Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya, Minister of Environment, the Republic of Rwanda (pre-recorded via video link) ? Amb. Gustavo Meza Cuadra, Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations ? Virginijus Sinkevicius, European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, European Commission ? Ed Shepherd, Senior Global Sustainability Manager - Circular Economy - Unilever ? Professor Richard Thompson OBE FRS, Director of the Marine Institute, University of Plymouth ? Rebecca Pow, Minister for Environment, UK Government Moderator: Christina Dixon, Ocean Campaign Leader, Environmental Investigation Agency Introduction Thank you for joining Common Seas and EIA's event, co-hosted by Rwanda, Peru, CIEL and the European Commission, which is part of the United Nations Ocean Conference side event programme. Plastic pollution constitutes a planetary crisis with impacts on our oceans, health, biodiversity and the climate system. Following the adoption of the resolution End Plastic Pollution: Towards an International Legally Binding Instrument at the 5th Session of the United Nations Environment Assembly in 2022 (UNEA-5), countries have a chance to come together and address the root causes of plastic pollution to safeguard our oceans and our planet. If we are to achieve SDG 14, an ambitious, coordinated and equitable approach that reflects the need to enable all countries to respond, including through support for low capacity countries and SIDS, will be essential. Stakeholders from civil society, government, business and the scientific community will lead this high-level dialogue on priority issues for addressing plastic pollution as we look towards international negotiations in 2022 and an ambitious eventual agreement that meets the scale of the crisis at hand. From highlighting the critical importance of plastic pollution to SDG 14 and our oceans, the discussion will also cover other interlinkages, such as the sustainable production and consumption of plastics (SDG 12), product design and standards, the need for a non-toxic circular economy and the environmentally sound management of waste - all anchored in evidence-based decision making and the need to turn words into urgent action through action plans and reporting requirements. The session will bring perspectives from different geographies and contexts, underscoring the need for a collaborative global vision to end plastic pollution that intervenes at all stages of the plastics life cycle. The session aims to: ? Provide an update on the progress towards developing a legally binding instrument to end plastic pollution following UNEA 5.2 ? Highlight essential elements to ensure the success of the instrument from different stakeholder perspectives, including business, government, scientific and civil society ? To provide insights into the interlinkages between SDG 14 and other SDGs in the context of addressing pollution across the full lifecycle of plastics Link to the Conference Theme: Scaling up Ocean Action Based on Science and Innovation for the Implementation of Goal 14: Stocktaking, Partnerships and Solutions ? In advance of UNEA 5.2, EIA coordinated the launch of a Scientists' Declaration on the Need for Governance of Plastics Throughout Their Life Cycles, which highlighted that approaches currently proposed for addressing plastic pollution focus primarily on waste management and actions lower down the waste hierarchy. It also noted that the 'marine litter' lens does not adequately reflect the findings of UNEP's Scientific Advisory Committee for Marine Litter and Microplastics, which concluded that a full life cycle approach is needed which principally focuses on prevention, reduction and redesigning problematic plastics out of the global economy. ? The Declaration called on governments to support the establishment of a new global treaty based on independently peer-reviewed scientific consensus and Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices (TKIP) of Indigenous peoples and local communities. Stakeholders from around the world and across the plastics value chain are committed to a global agreement that is grounded in and responsive to such expert opinion and evidence. ? Common Seas also sees an equitable approach to addressing plastic pollution as vital, and has developed the Plastic Drawdown tool as a mechanism for supporting low capacity countries and SIDS to take early action. The health impacts should also not be ignored. Peer-reviewed research commissioned by Common Seas found microplastics in 77% of the human blood samples that were tested. As a result, Common Seas are calling for more funding for research into the links between plastic exposure and human health. This is another reason why a new global treaty needs to focus on upstream action. ? This side event will focus discussion on the need for a global agreement with evidence-based measures that includes within its design the scientific mechanisms and approaches that will be required to inform ambitious policy-making to achieve SDG 14 and other related goals. Structure After introductory remarks from EIA, the panel will be introduced and asked to provide reflections on the essential elements for the plastics treaty from their stakeholder perspective. The panel will be Chaired by Christina Dixon. After each speaker has the chance to provide a few minutes of initial reflections, they will be asked at least one question specific to their expertise and context to elaborate further on their position. We will work with you to shape these questions, to ensure we can draw out the key messages you want to share about plastic pollution. Following the questions posed to the speakers, we will invite a small number of interventions from the floor. The room is booked for two hours to allow time for networking and refreshments but the official programme is not envisaged to last longer than one hour. We anticipate starting by 6.30pm and concluding by 7.30pm to allow time for networking. This timing should enable people to move from the Interactive Dialogues to this venue with adequate time. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://eia-international.org/from-ambition-to-action-ending-plastic-pollution-in-all-environments/ |
Description | Speaker in the roundtable 'Unpacking the circular economy: refill and reuse in packaging solutions' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Roundtable hosted by Policy Connect, the All-Party Sustainable Resource Group (APSRG) and Brunel University London. Topic of the roundtable: the role of reusable and refillable packaging solutions, to move the UK to a circular economy. Participants: parliamentarians, decision-makers, as well as representatives from industry, academia and the third sector. The outcome of this roundtable informed a second roundatable 'Unpacking the Circular Economy Evidence Session: Reusable packaging and the environment' to be hold in March 2023. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.policyconnect.org.uk/events/unpacking-circular-economy-refill-and-reuse-packaging-soluti... |
Description | Student Futures and Research Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | This five-day event is for career professionals, researchers, and student peers to engage and speak to university students from undergrad to PhD about their career areas, global challenges, and research. The aim of the event is to both inform and excite students interested in ecology and natural history about the career choices available to them and allow them to present their work to their peers. Attending the conference will be an audience of up to 300 undergraduate, postgraduate, Masters and PhD students, and others interested in ecology. Further information can be found on the Eventbrite page: Student Futures and Research Conference 2022 | Eventbrite |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-student-futures-and-research-conference-2022-tickets-249397192717 |
Description | Sustainable Management of Marine Resources |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Chaired session at The Sustainable Management of Marine Resources Annual Conference, Bristol, May |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Synthesis of Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research Outputs - Work Packages updates - PISCES UK team Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The event focused on presenting the research outputs of the different work packages and fostering interdisciplinary collaboration. Teams engaged in discussions regarding their respective outputs and explored strategies to integrate their findings collaboratively. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Systems Thinking to advance marine spatial planning in SE Asia. Western Philippines Sea |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Opening keynote presentation (invited) at the International Western Philippines Sea Conference: Systems thinking research to advance marine spatial planning in SE Asia. Palawan, the Philippines, August |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://sites.google.com/wpu.edu.ph/icwps2023/home |
Description | Systems Thinking to advance marine spatial planning, Jakarta |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Systems Thinking given at Universitas Esa Ungull, Jakarta, Indonesia, August |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Talk or Presentation to the Indonesian government |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Engagement of Indonesian government with the PISCES Programme to achieve their collaboration and cooperation . This was achieved |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | http://www.piscespartnership.org |
Description | Talk to industry consortium to share social science insights on plastics packaging and behaviour change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Talk to Nextloopp consortium to share insights from my social science research with audiences and households regarding recycling and to engage business in understanding the importance of social dimensions of the plastics problem |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Talk to the multinational toy industry regarding plastics pollution and behaviour change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | 2021 (February) Invited speaker. "Entertaining for Social Change: Case studies in Sustainability" Toys as a Force for Good. Webinar event with major toy industry/brands (including Hasbro, Mittel, CBeebies) Organised by Extended Plastics Partnership for Innovation in Circularity and Products of Change with Wastebuster, a leading UK not-for-profit environmental educational organisation. The event explored how cross-sector working through a new collective impact partnership programme, could unlock considerable social, economic, and environmental benefits for society (UK and International) There was considerable interest with follow up requests |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.productsofchange.com/news-article/join-webinar-on-circular-economy-for-toys/ |
Description | UN Ocean Side event - Marine Plastic Debris: Global Commitments and Actions for a Clean Ocean with the aim to strengthen global cooperation on marine plastic debris handling. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Marine Plastic Debris: Global Commitments and Actions for a Clean Ocean Time : Thursday, 30 June 2022, 13:00 - 14:15 (Lisbon time) Venue : Side Event Room 2, Altice arena A. Background Marine debris pollution is thus a global issue, and an abundance of research exists demonstrating its detrimental impacts on biodiversity, societies, and local and national economies. Despite its global prevalence, the deleterious consequences of marine debris are a tangible and visible concern at the local level, necessitating the engagement of local stakeholders to decrease its input and remove it from the ecosystem. In other circumstances, sinks of marine debris, such as beaches, are located outside the geopolitical boundaries of the generator locations, necessitating transboundary cooperation between neighboring towns, provinces, and countries. Therefore, to end marine plastic debris and its ubiquitous nature, synchronous strategies and efforts from various stakeholders must be deployed. Indonesia has issued Presidential Regulation Number 83 Year 2018 on Marine Debris Handling which highlights the state's goal in handling 70% of its marine plastic debris by 2025. This Regulation has successfully accelerated the efforts on waste management in the country, and as a result, the amount of plastic waste that is leaking into the ocean is decreasing annually. But Indonesia's efforts alone are not enough to end this transboundary plastic debris. Development organization, for example, plays an important role to support the development of innovative financing in mitigating marine plastic debris, while the private sector has the authority to ramp up the production and collection of recyclable plastic that will eventually reduce the amount of plastic waste leaking into the ocean. There have been commendable efforts by stakeholders above on ending marine plastic pollution, hence, to share and exchange the challenges and success stories from them, as well as to inspire others to take action, the Government of Indonesia plans to conduct a side event in the second UN Ocean Conference; Marine Plastic Debris: Global Commitments and Actions for a Clean Ocean. The side event will cover the unique threat posed by transboundary plastic debris to marine ecosystems and will emphasize the importance of global, science-based solutions and lessons learned that address everything from preventative measures to mitigation of marine plastic debris. The side event will feature high-level panelists from various stakeholders; state government, private sector, and development organizations. The presence of high-level representatives will illustrate the dedication of organizations and their missions to the worldwide challenge of preventing and reducing transboundary plastic debris through a collective global commitment and actions. B. Objectives This side event aims to 1. Encourage greater knowledge and comprehension of the problems associated with transboundary plastic debris; 2. Address the transboundary nature of marine debris and strengthen the global commitment and action on its mitigation; and 3. Increase regional, national, and global collaboration on the issue of transboundary plastic debris. C. Agenda Session 1: Opening by Moderator (5 minutes) Kristin Hughes Director, Global Plastic Action Partnership Session 2: Opening Remarks (20 Minutes) Opening Remark 1 (10 Minutes) Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment, Indonesia Opening Remark 2 (10 Minutes) Susan Gardner Director of Ecosystems Division, United Nations Environment Program Session 3: Dialogue (40 Minutes) Speaker 1: National Action Plan for Marine Debris Handling of Indonesia: Achievement, Challenge, and Way Forward (7 Minutes) Nani Hendiarti Deputy Minister for Environment and Forestry Management, CMMAI Speaker 2: The Norwegian Development Programme to Combat Marine Litter and Microplastics (7 Minutes) Espen Barth Eide Minister of Climate and the Environment of Norway Speaker 3: Public-private Partnership to Mitigate Marine Debris (7 Minutes) Jacob Duer President and CEO, Alliance to End Plastic Waste Speaker 4: Role of Academia in Combating Marine Plastic Debris (7 Minutes) Prof. Richard Thompson Director of the Marine Institute, University of Plymouth Speaker 5: Private Sector Contribution to Handle Marine Debris (6 Minutes) Henri Bruxelles Chief Sustainability and Strategic Business Development Officer, Danone International Speaker 6: A World Bank Approach: Pathways out of Plastic Pollution (6 Minutes) Valerie Hickey Global Director of Environment, Natural Resources and Blue Economy (ENB), World Bank Session 4: Discussion and Closing (10 Minutes) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://sdgs.un.org/events/marine-plastic-debris-global-commitments-and-actions-clean-ocean-47241 |
Description | UN Oceans Side Event Plastic pollution: what is holding us back from solutions; what key science and innovation is needed to tackle this global environmental challenge? Tue 28 Jun 2022, 4.00 pm |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | O28 June 2022, 16:00-17:30 Event streamed live from Lisbon, Portugal The topic of plastic pollution has received considerable global attention and as a consequence, was the focus of a recent UNEA 5.2 resolution entitled 'End Plastic Pollution: Towards an internationally legally binding instrument.' Most of the evidence around plastic pollution originates from the marine environment, yet most of the causes and hence the interventions to reduce plastic pollution, are grounded in supply chains and actions that lie on land. Do we have sufficient evidence to inform the recent UNEA resolution and if not, where are the evidence gaps? More broadly, are there lessons that can be learned from our current understanding of plastic pollution and our progress towards interventions that can help guide the way toward prioritisation of actions in relation to other environmental contaminants? This online discussion, question and answer session with experts from industry, policy and academia helped to identify the critical science and innovation needed to tackle this global environmental challenge. This panel debate featured short presentations from a diverse multinational panel (academia, policy, industry and innovation, finance, legal frameworks) followed by a Q&A session from the audience of conference delegates. Some of the key questions addressed: Do we need more evidence on the problem at sea or more on the trade-offs between solutions on land? What are the differences in applicability of solutions between nations? What is the relative importance of interventions at the design stage vs waste management to achieve circularity? What types of legal framework are needed to achieve success? What are the necessary national/international standards and enforcement? In short, what are the priorities for evidence to inform intervention in the context of UNEA 5.2? More broadly with regard to other forms of marine pollution, how best to link environmental evidence of impacts to effective solutions, in a timely manner? View the conference website See follow up article in Nature written by our Lisbon panellists outlining the evidence needs to inform the plastic treaty |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/plastic-pollution-2022-un-ocean-conference-official-virtual-side... |
Description | UN Oceans Conference -Panel Dialogue - Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment: Recommendation for Monitoring Debris Trends in marine Environment |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The Coordinating Ministry for maritime Affairs and Investment and the Secretariat of the national Coordination g team for marine Debris handling hosted a side event - Panel dialogue on marine debris with the aim to share and exchange knowledge and best practice on marine debris monitoring , mobilise partnerships with wider society and other relevant stakeholders to monitor the problem of plastic waste more effectively , and generate peer to peer exchange of knowledge, Susan Jobling gave a very short presentation on the PISCES Partnership and Research program, Dr Emenda Sembiring chaired the session , Professor Richard Thompson and Dr Reza Cordova both presented |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | UN Oceans Side event - Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment: Recommendation for Monitoring Debris Trend in Marine Environment. Speaker - Citizen Science to Improve Global Plastic Monitoring |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | 2022 United Nations Ocean Conference Side Event Marine Debris Monitoring and Assessment: Recommendation for Monitoring Debris Trend in Marine Environment Organized by: Secretariat of the National Coordination Team for Marine Debris Handling of Indonesia and Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment of Indonesia Background on the event (one paragraph) Improvement of marine debris monitoring is urgently needed to enhance the quality and accuracy of the marine debris issue magnitude in our environment. Academia, research institutes, and governments have employed marine debris monitoring initiatives, with varied challenges, success stories, and lesson learned. These cases need to be shared and learned with each other to produce a robust marine debris monitoring framework and assessment. This side event, conducted on 29 June 2020, aimed to serve as a platform for relevant stakeholders to share and exchange knowledge and best practices on marine debris monitoring, and ultimately, mobilize partnerships with wider society and other relevant stakeholders to monitor the problem of marine plastic debris more effectively. This side event featured Nani Hendiarti (Deputy Minister for Environment and Forestry Coordination, Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment), Burkhard Hinz (Head of Urban Development and Mobility, KfW), Muhammad Reza Cordova (Researcher, National Research and Innovation Agency of Indonesia), Prof. Richard Thompson (Director of the Marine Institute, University of Plymouth), Mattis Wolf (Researcher, Marine Perception Research Group, German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence), and Mana Kamakura (Section Chief, Office of Policies against Marine Plastics Pollution, Ministry of the Environment, Japan). |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://sdgs.un.org/events/marine-debris-monitoring-and-assessment-recommendation-monitoring-debris-... |
Description | UN Plastic Treaty Negotiations - Kenya |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Professor Richard Thompson and Dr Max Kelly from the University of Plymouth were accredited to attend the UN plastic treaty negotiations in Kenya. They formed part of a wider team, The Scientists' Coalition For an Effective Plastic Treaty' to help provide scientific evidence and expertise for country delegates. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | University of Plymouth House of Lords Reception |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | University of Plymouth House of Lords Reception - met and discussed research and outcomes with a wide variety of people |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | WP2 presentation to the PISCES Advisory Group |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
Results and Impact | WP2 presentation to the PISCES Advisory Group |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | WP2 workshop for project participants and stakeholders/data holders |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | WP2 workshop for project participants and stakeholders/data holders to identify existing data sets and hence needs for new data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Webinar: Plastic: from source to sea and solutions within |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Highlighting the problems of plastic pollution to a general audience and identifying why the role of research programmes like PISCES are needed to inform evidence based solutions. This generated an interesting discussion as to the role of plastic in societies. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.the-ies.org/events/plastics-source-sea-and |
Description | Workshop on plastic pollution calculator - model imporvements - 2nd PISCES Annual Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop ideating on the possible developments of the Plastic Pollution Calculator model for adaptation to the Indonesian context. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | chair a Royal Society of Biology's 'Policy Lates' panel event 'Why protect ocean biodiversity?' |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited to chair a Royal Society of Biology's 'Policy Lates' panel event 'Why protect ocean biodiversity?' (online, evening, 15/11/2021) with 4 speakers. We explored the different benefits humans derive from marine organisms and ecosystems and why biodiversity is important for many aspects of life outside of the ocean. The event explored the value of marine biodiversity within the context of novel pharmaceuticals, and the interactions between the marine environment and the global climate as well as the social and policy challenges of developing international conservation targets for the world's oceans. The Policy Lates series is a partnership of five RSB Member Organisations: British Pharmacological Society, Biochemical Society, Society for Applied Microbiology, Society for Experimental Biology, and The Physiological Society. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
URL | https://www.rsb.org.uk/news/experts-take-a-deep-dive-into-the-importance-of-ocean-biodiversity |
Description | speaker at the International Partnership Workshop For Early Career Researchers (ECRs) in Malaysia |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | speaker at the International Partnership Workshop For Early Career Researchers (ECRs) jointly organised by the Newton-Ungku Omar Fund (NUOF) and the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Blue Communities Malaysian Case Study, aiming at preparing the ECRs for international interdisciplinary research collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | the Theory of Change - presentation to all JNCC staff |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation to all JNCC staff on the Theory of Change |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |