80,000 tons of flexible plastic packaging are manufactured each year in Indonesia.

The average timespan of a single-use drink container packaged in flexible plastic is only 4 seconds. Because there are no safe disposal methods for flexible plastic, it may accumulate and then sit in a landfill forever. And because there are no traditional recycling techniques for this type of plastic it has little resale market value.

Rather than allow this flexible plastic to become potential toxic waste by clogging landfills and waterways, The XSProject Foundation acquires the plastic from trash pickers before it piles up in toxic landfills.

The manufacturing and use in Indonesia of these plastic drink pouches is rising significantly because of cheap production costs. But unlike hard plastic drink bottles this material is nonrecyclable, greatly endangering the public with more pollution and hazardous environmental damage.

• Nonrenewable, nonrecyclable products are the source of all environmental problems.

• The unintentional side effects of increased manufacturing and use, and the lack of methods for safe disposal of these products can be fatal.

• Products that look harmless (i.e. your cell phone) can have many invisible hidden costs: pollution, deforestation, species loss and global warming are all by-products of the industries that bring us food, transport, shelter, clothing and goods.

• Hidden costs are the sum total of negative impact from the toxic vapors and gases emitted by factories, pesticides and radiation.

• 30 tons of waste are produced for every 1 ton of product manufacturing.

• 98% of all products are thrown away within 6 months of purchase.

• Only 1 in 10,000 products is designed with environmental well-being in mind.

Source - The Total Beauty of SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTS by Edwin Datschefski Rotovision 2001