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Nadine Chandrawinata

Raise People’s Awareness

on Waste Management

Waste problem is not merely an individual, organizational
or governmental problem. It’s a problem we need to solve
together.

adine Chandrawinata is known not only for ask people to join the sorting habit, which was seen in
her contribution in entertainment industry. The the first year of her attempt. There were many of her
N 2015’s Puteri Indonesia is an environmentalist neighbors who didn’t sort out their waste. “But today,
whose love for nature is often shared through her my neighbors are very solid. All of them have been
social media. For example, on the commemoration doing the sorting habit,” she said proudly.
of National Waste Awareness Day in February 2021,
she shared an image of her and her husband Dimas Compulsory Sorting Waste
Anggara in front of trash bins and wrote a caption on
how to sort out waste and make compost. According to Nadine, it is a must to sort out waste.
The government has provided all the facilities and
For her, waste problem is not the government’s infrastructures including the trash disposal sites,
responsibility only but also the citizens’. If we can’t which eventually become used up despite the
find proper waste management, we will face the continuous production of waste. Hence, people need
impact for ourself. “We should be responsible for the to be aware of it and sort out their waste so it won’t
waste we produced ourself,” said Nadine to JaKita. cause a greater problem in the future.
Thus, she thinks it is necessary to raise people’s
awareness on reducing, sorting and recycling waste, Nonetheless, sorting waste program need to be
as she believes that people’s awareness on that reorganized properly and it requires collaboration
matter is still low. “Waste is our responsibility, not only between the government and its people. “The
our government’s,” she said in excitement. disposal system and waste collection schedule
should be arranged properly,” Nadine advised. She
Nadine admitted it is not easy to sort out waste. She believes the most important thing to do is to convince
often got wrong in whether to put the waste into the the residents why it is necessary to sort out organic
organic or non-organic trash bins. “To be honest, my and non-organic waste, since they have different
goodness, it is so hard to separate them. But step by treatments later. “Hence, the residents will believe
step, I could,” said her. what they do, by sorting waste, is useful,” she said.

With those knowledge and experiences, she Nadine admitted the common problem she often
influenced clean and zero-waste lifestyle to her close found on the ground is where plenty of non-organic
relatives and families, including nieces, nephews waste that is hard to decompose . The diving-lover
and distant relatives. She also introduced the waste woman feels sad on the fact that plastic waste
sorting to her neighbors. “I’ve been doing this since is harming marine life. Nadine, who was born in
2019,” she said. Although apparently, it is not easy to Hannover, Germany in 1984, said it was because

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