Complying to the Environmental Protection and Management Law, Reciki has their UKL-UPL (Environment Management Efforts - Environment Monitoring Efforts) report for two existing facilities approved by the BPLH (Environmental Management Agency). With this approval, we also have obtained an environmental permit from the Ministry of the Environment to operate their business.

Reciki commits to continuously improve our ESG performance: Comply with the local environmental regulations, including periodic environmental monitoring Use pollution control systems, conduct regular preventive maintenance and monitoring Implement a community response process to address concerns and queries from the community Undergo a third-party ESG audit at every new MRF facility we built

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Established in 2019, Reciki is an Indonesian waste management company, owned and operated by an experienced local team committed to meeting specific needs of Indonesian cities and contributing to address the significant waste management challenge the country is facing. Bhima Aries Diyanto, our CEO, founded Reciki after years of experience in the waste management sector. With previous experience managing six material recovery facilities (MRFs) at a waste management company headquartered in East Java, our CEO has accumulated an in-depth understanding of the local waste management challenges.

A Material Recovery Facility or MRF (pronounced like “merf”) plays a critical role in the recycling value chain. 99% of the formally collected plastic waste across Indonesia is discarded to landfills or open-dump sites; this is not to mention the waste that is burned on the roadside or deposited in waterways. Moreover, landfills are not an ideal destination or long-term solution for waste in Indonesia as they prevent capturing the value of materials and re-using them again. In addition, land is extremely limited in Indonesia and it is challenging for the governments to expand the landfill capacity year after year to accommodate the growing amount of waste generation. The more we can divert waste from leaky or mismanaged systems to recycling value chains, the more value we can create for communities and the more pollution we can prevent. Reciki’s MRFs aim to sort waste optimally so that the most valuable materials (e.g. metals, plastics, glass) are recovered and sold to recyclers for recycling -- minimizing the amount of waste entering landfills and our oceans.

First, we receive both source-segregated and unsegregated waste from various collection players, including informal waste collectors, waste banks, government-owned collection trucks and private waste haulers. The incoming waste can be any type of waste from domestic and commercial/business/factory sources, but we do not accept hazardous and toxic waste (“B3”). Our team designed custom machines that then sort the incoming waste and prepare it for market. With a vision to achieve zero-waste-to-landfill, we are constantly exploring and innovating different processing solutions to ensure waste is recycled to its highest and best use. The different buyers of our recyclables and waste vary depending on the local context. For example, at our Lamangan facility, recyclable waste (such as high-value plastics, metals, and glass) are then sold for recycling. Meanwhile, organic waste is composted by our composting partner. Low-value plastics, such as multilayer plastics, are sold to an innovative startup that currently manufactures planks and boards. Meanwhile, at our Jimbaran facility, we do not have access to either customer, so while we identify solutions we currently resort to processing a mix of residual waste into briquettes that can be used as an alternative to coal as Refuse-Derived Fuel (RDF).

In many parts of the world, waste is sorted by residents and businesses into different streams, such as “wet and dry” or “landfill and recyclables”. This means that each resident will sort their own waste into multiple bins that are then collected by different entities. For example, in a “wet and dry” system, a resident could have a bin only for wet waste (e.g. food waste) and a separate bin for everything else. Ideally, Reciki would only accept source-segregated waste because it is less contaminated and can be more easily recycled. This means we could earn more value for recyclables, and pay collectors more for it. However, this practice is not yet commonly applied in Indonesia, as most people do not have access to reliable waste management let alone multiple waste haulers for different waste streams. In most cases, a resident may have one waste hauler that will service its community with one truck that co-mingles all the waste. We expect this will change over the coming decade as more waste collection infrastructure is built and behavior changes. However, as Reciki is committed to achieve its zero-waste-to-landfill vision today, we would rather deal with the waste we have now and recover as much material as possible, while we wait for residents to start source-segregation. As segregation rolls-out in Indonesia and behavior changes over the next generation, it is in our best interest as a business to adapt our systems and infrastructure to recover and reuse even more waste.

In many parts of the world, waste is sorted by residents and businesses into different streams, such as “wet and dry” or “landfill and recyclables”. This means that each resident will sort their own waste into multiple bins that are then collected by different entities. For example, in a “wet and dry” system, a resident could have a bin only for wet waste (e.g. food waste) and a separate bin for everything else. Ideally, Reciki would only accept source-segregated waste because it is less contaminated and can be more easily recycled. This means we could earn more value for recyclables, and pay collectors more for it. However, this practice is not yet commonly applied in Indonesia, as most people do not have access to reliable waste management let alone multiple waste haulers for different waste streams. In most cases, a resident may have one waste hauler that will service its community with one truck that co-mingles all the waste. We expect this will change over the coming decade as more waste collection infrastructure is built and behavior changes. However, as Reciki is committed to achieve its zero-waste-to-landfill vision today, we would rather deal with the waste we have now and recover as much material as possible, while we wait for residents to start source-segregation. As segregation rolls-out in Indonesia and behavior changes over the next generation, it is in our best interest as a business to adapt our systems and infrastructure to recover and reuse even more waste.

RDF stands for “refuse-derived fuel”. It is a fuel that is produced from various types of waste. With the right calorific value, RDF can be used to produce electricity, replacing fossil fuels and coal.

At Reciki’s MRF in Jimbaran, majority of the waste we received are organic waste and low-value, non-organic waste (e.g., multilayer plastics, mixed plastics). In Bali, we have not yet identified a recycling company that can recycle low-value, non-organic waste and an industrial compost facility nearby that is capable of managing this high volume of organic waste. Meanwhile, aligned with our zero-waste-to-landfill mission, we have committed to the local community and to the local government that we will not discard any of the residual waste into the Suwung landfill as it is currently already over-capacity. Therefore, we resort to producing RDF with this residual waste to use it for energy production. Considering the current context in Bali, we see RDF as an interim solution until we find a more sustainable solution. We are thus currently piloting a process to convert a mix of low-value, non-organic waste and organic waste into briquettes to replace coal. To minimize the negative environmental impact of this process, we regularly test our air and water discharge quality. We are continuously researching other methods to process residual plastics and organic waste for our operations. We welcome suggestions and partners to engage in the exploration with us.

As Reciki fully commences its RDF production (in pilot stage as of April 2022), Reciki commits to only sell its RDF to customers that have pollution control systems in place to meet local regulatory requirements, at the minimum, and align with industry best practices including factories (with proper scrubbers), cement kiln sites, and steam-power plants (“PLTU”).

In our Lamongan facility, we opened a buyback center to collect source-segregated waste from waste collectors (e.g., waste banks, waste pickers), offering incentives to provide quality materials to Reciki. This approach helps educate the market to shift to the right behavior. We plan to expand this buyback center in our Jimbaran facility this year. It is in Reciki’s best interest to encourage source segregation, as our business is increasingly more viable with the more material we recycle and the less RDF we produce.