Plastic Waste management in Bali

In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to the phenomenon of plastic waste management and the issue of plastic pollution. Together with climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, and careless and inefficient resource management, environmental pollution, especially plastic waste, is considered to be a major factor negatively affecting global biodiversity. Indonesia, along with China, is one of the world's largest producers of marine plastic waste in the oceans. The presented bachelor thesis deals with the issue of plastic waste management on the Indonesian island of Bali. Its aim is to find out whether there are specific methods limiting the use of plastics and at the same time procedures dealing with its recycling, both formally and practically. All information is based on the legal regulations of the Republic of Indonesia, a search of professional articles and literature, but also on the conducted field research further elaborated in the practical part. This part is used to analyze and interpret the data obtained from a targeted questionnaire survey, which was intended to find out how local residents approach the issue of plastic pollution. Based on the information obtained, the final part is devoted to the current and future possible development of the plastic economy of Bali