Job losses and rise in COVID-19 cases in Indonesia. Rian Afdol, 28, from Padang, West Sumatra, recycles used glass bottles into works of art with market value.

He collects glass bottle waste on the street, bottle waste on the beach and buried in the ground. Garbage in Indonesia is the biggest problem, even President Joko Widodo has promised to reduce marine litter by 70% by 2025. He said this during a speech at the international forum One Ocean Summit hosted by France.

Waste glass bottles have a decay time of up to 1 million years, according to the Waste Management Directorate of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (KLHK).

Rian has priced the glass bottles that have been engraved and have the design with a price ranging from Rp. 80,000 to Rp. 500,000 and the maximum price of Rp. 1,000,000 per pack.

He marketed the production through the social media marketplace.

"Buyers outside the Padang region are also interested people from Java, such as Surabaya, Semarang, including Jakarta," Rian said on Thursday, February 24, 2022.