Three students from the Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia (DTI FTUI) offered a strategy to optimize the end-to-end plastic waste management program in support of the IPST ASARI circular economy. The Botebi team consists of Alya Khanaya (2020 DTI International Program), Irzhafarina Aldayondri ( DTI 2020), and Ruth Vanesa (DTI 2020) won the 2022 Industrial Engineering Scientific Competition (IESC) thanks to this alternative solution.
ISEEC is an annual educational competition consisting of industrial engineering scientific competitions, simulation games, and business case competitions organized by students of the Industrial Engineering Study Program, Universitas Indonesia. This competition has been held since 2001 and has grown from initially a national scale to an international scale for all industrial and systems engineering students around the world.
IPST ASARI is an integrated waste manager in Serdag, Cilegon which is under the guidance of Chandra Asri. IPST ASARI has a capacity of up to 8,000 kg of plastic waste per month and operates a pyrolysis machine with a capacity of 100 kg/batch. However, there are various kinds of problems experienced by IPST ASARI, namely IPST ASARI’s expenses and income are still not balanced, and IPST ASARI’s production is still far from the target, namely 24,000 kg of plastic in 2024.
“Currently, IPST ASARI still relies on Chandra Asri (financially and for their program). From these problems, we formulated two problems, namely the evaluation and development strategy for the ASARI IPST program so that it can run sustainably and a marketing or commercial strategy to commercialize pyrolysis products. We provide four alternatives for ASARI’s IPST circular economy initiative, namely the PlasPond program and campaign, optimizing social media, penetrating eco-paving block selling, encouraging fishermen and agricultural workers, and using plastic fuel,” said Alya.
“From these various alternatives, you can prioritize the PlasPond program to improve the company’s green image and also increase youth awareness of the circular economy. Another alternative that we want to prioritize is the penetration of the commercialization of eco-paving blocks. This alternative is the main focus because it can overcome the use of low-value plastics while increasing revenue,” said Irzhafarina.
Dean of FTUI, Prof. Dr. Heri Hermansyah, ST., M.Eng., IPU expressed his appreciation for the achievements and alternative solutions provided by Alya and the team. “Congratulations on the achievements that have been achieved. Various alternative solutions related to problem-solving at IPST ASARI. Hopefully, it can be a solution in increasing the development of the ASARI IPST program so that it can continue to run sustainably.”
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