Last month, CLEAR Community welcomed two new team members. Dimas and Asri, our new Junior Community Mobilisers, introduce themselves: Hello! My name is Dimas Hatta I’m the newest member of the CLEAR Community team as Junior Community Mobiliser. I joined CLEAR because I believe one way to slow down climate change and solve other environmental …
Stopping pollution and restoring mangroves CLEAR Community is always looking for new ways to engage communities, reduce pollution and improve the environment. Based at the Waste Bank at Caykung, near Nusawiru, intern Tri Setyorini Saputri, Agricultural Engineering graduate explains the importance of protecting ecosystems from plastic pollution and how CLEAR Community has helped to revitalise …
Reducing plastic usage CLEAR encourages communities to embrace the six Rs as the guiding principles for reducing waste output: Rethink, Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Repair. To address the severe problem of littering by sachets made of single-use plastic, CLEAR is piloting refill stores at the village recycling centres (waste banks) to tackle sachet culture. The …
Despite COVID restrictions, CLEAR has helped five village waste management systems (Waste Banks). In the four months to August, 2259kg of waste was recycled, including 881kg plastic. With no municipal waste collection services, this is waste that would have been burnt or eventually have found its way into the rivers and the ocean. Over 820 …
CLEAR has started a village assistance program in Kabupaten Pangandaran, an area with 93 villages on the southern coast of West Java, Indonesia. The program will generate a new wave of Waste Champions. They will be instrumental in establishing village Waste Banks and start sorting waste, recycling, building permaculture gardens, and implementing other waste management …
We had a great day of learning fun in the Bale Tau garden with the local kids from the area, getting our hands dirty and learning about organic permaculture gardening techniques. We started off by transferring seedlings from the nursery into the garden – chillies, sweet potatoes and some flowers – before learning about simple …
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As we are based in one of the world’s most plastic-polluted countries, we arrange fortnightly beach clean-ups, which have proved to be a really effective way of influencing and engaging with the locals – we’ve even seen adorable two and three year old children picking straws and odd bits of plastic during our regular beach …
Here at CLEAR, we are slowly but surely growing by the day and when we have yoga instructors, or even yoga experienced practitioners, we are glad to announce that we can offer yoga classes at Bale Tau. A healthy body, healthy mind and healthy planet is what it’s all about! Unfortunately, in recent times we …
Alongside our regular beach cleans and environmental activities, we also run regular arts and crafts workshops to allow whoever is interested to enjoy the freedom of experimenting and exploring their creativity. The act of creation can be empowering as well as a great way to relax and as such we enjoy running art projects …
We had a lovely time picking up plastic on the beach the other day. There were eight of us altogether, including two of our English students and three of our helpers, all with exciting backgrounds and travel plans. Our aim was to make Coco Beach, or the Reef, look squeaky clean with no hint of …
