FIVE days a week, Juleha collects and processes plastic bottle waste for the Pemulung Berdaya Cooperative in South Tangerang, Banten. At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, this cooperative lost some business due to protests by residents who were worried about being infected by garbage from the red zone—an area with a high rate of coronavirus infection—even though all the plastic waste has been sprayed with disinfectant. “Th