Sungai Watch has created a streamlined process using floating barriers to collect, sort and up-cycle River Plastic into value.

With more than 80% of plastic waste in the ocean coming from rivers, Sungai Watch believes that the best solution to tackling the problem is by stopping plastic directly at the source with affordable and scalable solutions, upstream in the rivers.

Sungai Watch is an environmental charityon a mission to stop plastic from going into the ocean. As rivers are the perfect connection point between life on land and the ocean, Sungai Watch believes trash barriers are the quickest and most cost effective way to eradicate plastic pollution, by activating communities on land .To beat plastic pollution, they have installed 180 trash barriers, one river at a time to stop plastic from going into the ocean. Once the trash is being collected, they sort it at their facilities to be able to recycle river plastic into products.

Alongside they organize emergency cleanups at illegal dumps and along riverbanks to prevent plastic from entering rivers as well as work on enforcing proper waste management at the local level.

To track river pollution and better prevent these sources, they've been mapping their work, providing communities and governments a relevant tool to clean rivers, collect data and improve waste management practices.

In 2.5 years, they have removed 1.3+ million kg of plastic from Indonesia's most polluted river and are now scaling Sungai Watch throughout the world's most polluted regions.

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