Author: Jared Paben
A company that specializes in collecting PET and other plastics at risk of entering the ocean continues to expand its collection infrastructure in Southeast Asia with support from the U.S. government. Prevented Ocean Plastic Southeast Asia (POPSEA) in June opened an aggregation center in the fast-growing Indonesian city of Semarang. The facility, which has a capacity of about 500 metric tons per month and directly employs 40 people, was funded through a blended public-private finance model that included a grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).