Jakarta, Nov. 12 -- Plastic waste arising from local food and beverage products, mostly instant noodle brands, chiefly constituted the waste collected in the brand audit conducted by Greenpeace Indonesia in 2019.

"Most of the plastic waste is that from instant noodles, and in 2019, the waste collected in the action had mostly come from local companies," Urban Campaigner at Greenpeace Indonesia Muharram Atha Rasyadi stated during a discussion here on Tuesday.

A total of 1,645 items found by Greenpeace Indonesia and volunteers partaking in the Break Free From Plastic global movement in 2019 were mostly single-use bottles of mineral water, food packaging, and instant noodles.

The audit was conducted in eight cities from different province...